A #Hacker Got All My Texts for


A gaping flaw in #SMS lets hackers take over #phone numbers in minutes by simply paying a company to reroute text #messages.

source: vice.com/en/article/y3g8wb/hac…

I hadn't been SIM swapped, where hackers trick or bribe telecom employees to port a target's phone number to their own SIM card. Instead, the hacker used a service by a company called #Sakari, which helps businesses do SMS marketing and mass messaging, to reroute my messages to him. This overlooked attack vector shows not only how unregulated commercial SMS tools are but also how there are gaping holes in our telecommunications #infrastructure, with a hacker sometimes just having to pinky swear they have the consent of the target.


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