You might’ve read a couple of news pieces from a couple of weeks back on a scary kind of SMS hijacking attack that was also scarily easy to perpetrate by anyone. Basically, using a service from a company called Sakari, meant to help businesses do SMS marketing, can allow you to take over someone’s number and redirect their SMS text messages to you: no questions asked, the victim doesn’t even get a notification, and the service’s cheapest plan that allows you to do this is just $16. This report from Motherboard surfaced a gigantic loophole: if you’re using something that uses text messages as an authentication method, all a hacker had to do was to pay $16 to reroute your messages. You can now rest easy, though, as T-Mobile, ATT, and Verizon have all patched this loophole.
This was announced by Aerialink (via Motherboard), a communication company
Article source: https://www.xda-developers.com/t-mobile-att-verizon-patched-sms-loophole/
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