Manipulating Mobile Devices with a Private GSM Base Station - A Case Study
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چکیده
The ascending number of mobile devices is accompanied by an ever increasing effort of malware developers to find new means of infecting them. GSM, as a basic technology for mobile communication used by most mobile phones, lacks certain security aspects. In order to access a provider network the mobile equipment authenticates itself against the network, whereas the latter does not have to prove its authenticity. Based on this design flaw we demonstrate an approach to remotely reconfigure a mobile device in order to manipulate its system settings. This can give an attacker the opportunity to hijack data connections or even infect the mobile device with malware. Examination of the applicability of our theoretical approach in a field experiment proofed the lack of security in GSM. Reconfiguration of mobile devices during the field experiment was only successful for a few devices because of the technical limitations and user cautiousness.
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