[ISN] Android respawn horror: Hacker says hackers' phones hacked

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 03:39:08 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/12/defcon_handsets/

By Bill Ray
The Register
12th August 2011

Claims that both CDMA and 4G networks were compromised at the recent 
Defcon security event in Las Vegas have raised little surprise, but the 
vulnerability of handsets is hotly debated.

The claim was made by coderman, a stalwart of security conferences, who 
reports that he witnessed an advanced man-in-the-middle attack operating 
on both CDMA and UMTS networks and masterminded by an amalgam of Anon 
and Lulz. This attack was apparently able to identify connected devices 
and run through known exploits before falling back to ask the user's 
permission to install.

The symptoms of infection include "3G/4G* signal anomalies", "Android 
[device] at full charged plugged in, but dropping to <50% charge once 
unplugged", "Android services that immediately respawn when killed" and 
"a hard freeze, and then take[ing] a long time to reboot".

Android users might recognise that as SNAFU, but according to coderman 
it indicates the user has fallen prey to hackers from the 
usually-desperate groups Anon and Lulz.

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