While only a certain brand of smartphones was vulnerable to being wiped via an USSD command embedded in webpages, the locking of SIM cards is possible with most any Android phone. The victim just needs to have the phone access a maliciously-formed “tel:” URI, such as by visiting a web page with an embedded iframe. […]
If you use an Android phone you may have heard of something called the USSD vulnerability. This allows a nasty piece of malicious software to reset your Android to its factory default settings and permanently delete your data. We will describe the USSD problem in more detail in a moment but first we want to […]
Researchers have determined that an attack which can wipe data from Samsung Android devices when visiting a malicious website can also be used to lock the SIM cards or completely wipe all of the data from many other Android phones. In addition to web pages, the attack can be triggered through SMS, or by a […]
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