[Discussion] Veritasiums: Exposing the flaw in our phone system. (inv.nadeko.net)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by N0x0n@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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YouTube link: https://youtu.be/wVyu7NB7W6Y

Invidious link: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=wVyu7NB7W6Y

Sorry for the formatting... Tried to remove the URL for better readability, but there seems some kind of bug.

TLDW

hack phones remotely just knowing it's phone number
Intercept 2FA sms
Intercept phone calls
Reroute phone calls
Geolocation of a target

I dunno if it has already been posted/discussed here but this kinda blew my mind ! Sorry there's a lot of clickbait but the general subject is interesting...

I never heard of SS7 and have actually no idea how the whole phone system communication works but that's kinda scary...

Yes we are probably not the first target with this "hack" nor is it as easy as exposed in this video and nor do we have 14k $ to spend on this, but that's not out of reach for some people. I mean it's not as expensive as Pegasus and people with the mean and some good stable income can probably misuse this system for targeting specific vulnerable people (example in the video).

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[-] Vlado@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

Honestly it didn’t even occur to me that this could be a problem somewhere in this day and age. I don’t even remember when was the last time my bank sent me an SMS for MFA, but it’s a good point for people in US.

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