Germany's Security Research Labs warns that the world is widely used in wireless technology GSM allows hackers to gain remote access to a mobile phone, giving them the ability to send messages to it and make calls.
According to an expert company in the security of mobile phones Karsten Zero, attackers could exploit the vulnerability of technology GSM.
At risk of any phone based on GSM. Fraudsters can gain access to a mobile phone and send messages or call for expensive bogus phone lines.
"We can apply this to the hundreds of thousands of phones in a short time," - said on the eve of the presentation Zero hacker convention in Berlin next Tuesday.
Are common attack on the corporate landline telephone system, often using bogus telephone lines, provided for an additional charge and designed by hackers in Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia. Fraudsters making calls from compromised corporate telephone systems or mobile phones, then get the money and disappear revealing the fact to commit burglary.
Phone users do not know about the problem until then, do not yet receive their bills.
Recall that in early October, the experts found in several models of smartphones HTC Android-based OS on a vulnerability that allows third-party applications to gain access to personal data holder unit.
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