{"id":64,"date":"2013-07-22T22:55:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T22:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tcert.org\/news\/?p=64"},"modified":"2013-11-05T07:56:18","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T07:56:18","slug":"sim-cards-attacks-using-over-the-air-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tcert.org\/news\/2013\/07\/sim-cards-attacks-using-over-the-air-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"SIM Cards attacks using Over-the-Air Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The attack is a combination of both insecure communication method of SIM cards update with OTA STK procedure; and vulnerability in Java version running on the SIM card.<\/p>\n<p>Industry reality is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Number of affected card is not very high, limited to old cards. Often it&#8217;s 3DES being used.<\/li>\n<li>The Binary SMS required to deliver the attack are often filtered at operator&#8217;s boundary, thus stopping the attack.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.symantec.com\/connect\/blogs\/hijacking-sim-cards-through-over-air-updates\">Hijacking SIM Cards through Over-the-Air Updates | Symantec Connect Community<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/srlabs.de\/rooting-sim-cards\/\">Rooting SIM cards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/des-encryption-leaves-sim-cards-vulnerable-to-exploitation-7000018352\/\">DES encryption leaves SIM cards vulnerable to exploitation | ZDNet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.fortinet.com\/Millions-of-SIM-cards-vulnerable-to-remote-compromise-\/\">News and Threat Research Millions of SIM cards vulnerable to remote compromise |\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.fortinet.com\/Millions-of-SIM-cards-vulnerable-to-remote-compromise-\/\">Fortinet Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The attack is a combination of both insecure communication method of SIM cards update with OTA STK procedure; and vulnerability in Java version running on the SIM card. Industry reality is: Number of affected card is not very high, limited<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,30,29,27,28,4,25],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-java","tag-ota","tag-sim","tag-stk","tag-telecom","tag-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tcert.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tcert.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tcert.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tcert.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tcert.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.tcert.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"http:\/\/www.tcert.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tcert.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tcert.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tcert.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tcert.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}