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New LTE Security Flaws Discovered By South Korea Researchers

Calendar Mar 23, 2019 • User Avatar Brittany Day
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security advisory attack vector mobile network LTE data traffic

A group of academics from South Korea have identified 36 new vulnerabilities in the Long-Term Evolution (LTE) standard used by thousands of mobile networks and hundreds of millions of users across the world.

The vulnerabilities allow attackers to disrupt mobile base stations, block incoming calls to a device, disconnect users from a mobile network, send spoofed SMS messages, and eavesdrop and manipulate user data traffic.

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