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Re:Uncovering the CIA's Crypto AG operation by akiselev on Friday March 06, 2020 @04:17AM (#22502121)
You absolutely could build a stingray with an SDR with OpenBTS, although I'm not sure how you'd get it to emulate 4G. As far as I know, OpenBTS only supports 3G.

For the lazy, a 3G tower dev kit from Range Networks is $8,000 [1].

[1] https://rangenetworks.com/get-started

Re:Uncovering the CIA's Crypto AG operation by bjornsing on Friday March 06, 2020 @05:08AM (#22502373)
AFAIK stingrays typically use 2G, since 3G and upwards have strong mutual authentication (i.e. the network authenticates the phone but the phone also authenticates the network). They just jam the 3/4G signal to make the target phone fall back to 2G.
Re:Uncovering the CIA's Crypto AG operation by Fnoord on Friday March 06, 2020 @06:21AM (#22502741)
Agreed.

I've never done it, but I suppose you could use 2 SDRs. One for setting up OpenBTS, one for jamming 4G/LTE.

Re:Uncovering the CIA's Crypto AG operation by lima on Friday March 06, 2020 @07:42AM (#22503112)
There's NextEPC: https://github.com/nextepc/nextepc

Fake base station attacks do not work with 4G/5G, but a downgrade attack to 2G might still be possible.