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The impersonation attack - named "IMPersonation Attacks in 4G NeTworks" - exploits the mutual authentication method used by the mobile phone and the network's base station to verify their respective identities to manipulate data packets in transit. The man-in-the-middle attack allows a hacker to impersonate a user towards the network and vice versa.
Researchers have found a way to impersonate mobile devices on 4G and 5G mobile networks, and are calling on operators and standards bodies to fix the flaw that caused it. Research into the vulnerability, conducted by academics at Ruhr Universität Bochum and New York University Abu Dhabi, is called Impersonation Attacks in 4G Networks, although deployment requirements for 5G networks mean that it could work on those newer systems too.
Exploiting a vulnerability in the mobile communication standard LTE, researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum can impersonate mobile phone users. David Rupprecht and Dr. Katharina Kohls from the Chair of System Security developed attacks to exploit security gaps in the mobile phone standard LTE. "An attacker can book services, for example stream shows, but the owner of the attacked phone would have to pay for them," illustrates Professor Thorsten Holz from Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security, who discovered the vulnerability together with David Rupprecht, Dr. Katharina Kohls and Professor Christina Pöpper.
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