Security News > 2019 > February > New privacy-breaking attacks against phones on 4G and 5G cellular networks
2019-02-25 13:55
Three new attacks can be used to track the location and intercept calls of phone users connected to 4G and 5G cellular networks, researchers from Purdue University and The University of Iowa have revealed. About the attacks Syed Rafiul Hussain, Mitziu Echeverria, Omar Chowdhury, Ninghui Li and Elisa Bertino have come up with three distinct attacks taking advantage of design weaknesses and implementation oversights of the cellular paging protocol: The ToRPEDO (TRacking via Paging mEssage … More → The post New privacy-breaking attacks against phones on 4G and 5G cellular networks appeared first on Help Net Security.
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