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Your Phone Can Be Hijacked From a Car: Rob Beggs on SMS Blasters and Scam Texts
SMS blasters are industrial-grade cybercrime tools manufactured and sold specifically to compromise phones at scale. Rob Beggs says one is enough to take out the real cell towers in a parking lot and replace them without anyone noticing.
The text that arrives on your phone looks legitimate because to your phone it is legitimate. The number appears correct. The sender appears to be the CRA or your mobile provider. Rob Beggs says the technique follows a well-established hacking pattern: remove the real node, replace it with one you control, and operate without detection. Right now the telcos…
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