Security News > 2017 > May > Real-World SS7 Attack — Hackers Are Stealing Money From Bank Accounts (The Hackers News)
2017-05-04 02:26
Security researchers have been warning for years about critical security holes in the Signaling System 7 (SS7) that could allow hackers to listen in private phone calls and read text messages on a potentially vast scale, despite the most advanced encryption used by cellular networks. Cellular networks, on the other hand, have consistently been ignoring this serious issue, saying that it is a
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