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Lax Telco Security Allows Mobile Phone Hijacking and Redirects

2019-05-08 17:14

A Q&A with Kaspersky Lab researcher David Jacoby examines a gaping hole in the telco customer-service process that allows adversaries to commandeer phone calls.

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https://threatpost.com/social-engineering-telcos-phone-hijacking/144495/

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