[Windflier]

Heads up!

[Dr. Sivana]

Wow. Steve Gibson has been around forever. I still have his bootable low-level hard drive format program, even though it is mostly obsolete.

[Retrofitted]

Some more info:

“This research specifically considers SIM cards which make use of a technology not used by most mobile operators,” the GSMA told PCMag in an email. ‘The potential vulnerability is understood to not be widespread and mitigations have been developed for affected mobile networks to implement.’

“AT&T and Sprint told PCMag they don’t use the affected technology on their SIM cards. Verizon says, ‘We have no indication to believe this impacts Verizon.’ T-Mobile has reportedly indicated the same.”

https://www.pcmag.com/news/370736/sim-card-flaw-poses-spying-threat-but-us-users-appear-to-be

[lysie]

Later.

[DiogenesLamp]

I’m glad my phone is so old. Nobody wants to hack it. I don’t think it even has a SIM card in it.

[Windflier]

Simjacker attack exploited in the wild to track users for at least two years

Simjacker attack abuses STK and S@T Browser technologies installed on some SIM cards.

[moovova]

“...track the user’s location.”

They’re gonna get tired of waiting for me to get off the couch.

And then I’m only going to either the bathroom...or the fridge.

[Swordmaker]

SimJacker in the wild. . . Exploited by sending an SMS message. Works with government to monitor individuals. Using spyware like code, instructs the SIM card to take over the phone to retrieve and perform specific code to retrieve data using a SIMcard S@T browser (say what?). SIM cards are a ROM, supposedly all makes and models of phones. Affecting over 1 billion phones. Uses the SIM Application Toolkit programmed into the SIM card which is an antiquated legacy set of commands left over from GSM flipphones which used commandline menueing screen commands systems but has been forgotten and just left in the SIMs. All GSM and CDMA system phones have this in them. Oops! It is estimated this has likely been exploited to target specific individuals for at least two years. —PING!

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