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Simjacker
Technical Report ©2019 AdaptiveMobile Security interface, and typically tries the most advanced types of attacks. It is also a threat actor that we have detected being active over SS networks for several years, when we first began to deploy Firewalls over the SS interface for Mobile Operators. The fact that Simjacker would be used to obtain much of the same information available over SS, which would not be available due to improvements
by Mobile Operators, further strengthens Simjacker attractiveness to a surveillance company who use SS techniques.
7) We have more specific information on which surveillance company it could potentially be, but unfortunately, we are notable to reveal this information. To do so would reveal specific methods and information which would damage our ability to detect and block these attacks globally. Our conclusion is in this case we believe the provider of the Simjacker attacks is a specific large-scale, experienced surveillance company, which has multiple customers worldwide for its SS attack functionality, and in this case, we observe it being employed to track the location and obtain handset information of primarily Mexican mobile phone users.
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