Investigators demonstrate Nokia 1100’s criminal potential
Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Misc
In case you weren‘t already convinced of a certain model of Nokia 1100’s hackability by the exponential surge in its aftermarket value, fraud investigation firm Ultrascan has successfully recreated a virtual bank heist by reprogramming one of the devices to receive another phone number’s text messages. Using this trick, shady characters in fancy suits can get your mobile transaction authentication number — provided you live in a country like Germany or Holland that use mTANs — and use it to get into your bank account and transfer funds. They’d also need your account name and password, mind you, but obtaining that data isn’t nearly as complex when there’s plenty of people clicking on the wrong emails and signing into fake website with all those deets and the associated digits. It all sounds a bit like the stuff of crime novels, doesn’t it? And before you go running to eBay with that 1100 you stashed away in a drawer years ago, please note that it only works if the candybar was produced at a very specific plant in Bochum, Germany.
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