Security researcher demos new cellphone attack
2010-12-09 09:36 by DanielaTags: cellphone, security
A researcher at the University of Luxembourg has demonstrated a new type of attack against mobile phones at the security conference DeepSec in Vienna.
Using a base transceiver station - widely available for around $1,000 - he showed how common programming errors in cellphones' communication stack can be exploited to gain control over the devices.
Ralf-Philipp Weinmann says he found 'devastating' flaws in a large percentage of cellular communication stacks. He says anyone sufficiently motivated would be able to exploit these to make an attacks - which would be almost undetectable.
The exploit would allow hackers to take over control of mobile phones anywhere within the range of the rogue transceiver - which Weinmann points out could mean hundreds of phones at a time in crowded urban areas.
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