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Criminals Are Tapping into the Phone Network Backbone to Empty Bank Accounts (vice.com)
2 points by archi42 on May 22, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Since many commenters on HN don't seem to be aware that 2FA over text messages is inherently insecure. This article outlines how a sophisticated attacker doesn't even need to perform the SIM swapping trick as done here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19971953.

The first report of this technique - that I'm aware of - was at the 2014 31C3 in Berlin. The Motherboard article however is from 2019.

Slides: https://berlin.ccc.de/~tobias/31c3-ss7-locate-track-manipula...

Talk: https://media.ccc.de/v/31c3_-_6249_-_en_-_saal_1_-_201412271...




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