Phone Firewall Identifies Rogue Cell Towers Trying to Intercept Your Calls

Re:Phone Firewall Identifies Rogue Cell Towers Trying to Int... by schoen on Wednesday September 03, 2014 @03:16PM (#8264736)

For example, there's NSO Group, which has exploits against common smartphone basebands and can use them to activate sensors in the device:

http://online.wsj.com/articles/smartphones-become-next-front... http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/08/01/can-this-israeli-star...

In addition to the use of IMSI catchers for MITMing calls and text messages, and the use of IMSI catchers for detecting the presence of devices, there's the use of IMSI catchers for delivering baseband exploits.

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Re:Phone Firewall Identifies Rogue Cell Towers Trying to Int... by tedunangst on Wednesday September 03, 2014 @06:34PM (#8265823)

Heh. We've come full circle. The "sources" for that second link include a comment thread on HN that was later deleted. Fortunately somebody at WSJ was kind enough to blog about it so you still have something to link to.

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