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Simjacker attack could affect a billion smartphones

A new SIM card flaw has been discovered by security researchers who say that more than a billion smartphones could be at risk as threat actors are currently exploiting it in the wild.The vulnerability, called Simjacker, was found in mobile SIM cards by researchers at AdaptiveMobile Security and it is being used to track user's locations, intercept calls and more all by sending an SMS message to a victim's smartphone.The researchers released a blog post in which they disclosed the vulnerability a
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