Extensive spy operations were detected across the phone's chipset

Extensive spy operations were detected across the phone's chipset

Smartphone users are keen to keep their software safe on their devices, but it's often forgotten that a SIM card can turn into "hacking and spying" at times.



According to the company "Adaptive Mobile" specialized in digital security, the phone chip poses a greater risk than spyware installed on the device.


The vulnerability of the "SIM card", or "SIM JAKER", for spying operations on the device by an unnamed company, according to the transport site "Engadget" technical.



This is done by sending an SMS to the user,


This technology was initially launched until you open a web browser or play audio and perform a number of operations on phones.


But Chip's vulnerability relies on technology to obtain information about the user's location (location), and then to get what is known as International Mobile Identity Numbers.


At a later stage, these numbers are sent to another hacking device, via a text message recording all the required data.


Short text messages (SMS) contain a code similar to the spyware code sent to hack phones, which often provides instructions to the calling card to control the device to execute certain commands.



Experts note that this breakthrough occurs silently and unnoticeable, although the process is carried out through a text message.



Once this breach occurs, the hacker can get all the data, continuously and without interruption.


This process not only targeted some cheap phones, but also included "iPhone" as well as "Android" phones.



The security company said the breach occurred in more than 30 countries around the world, and targeted the Middle East and North Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe for at least two years.




Adaptive Mobile said some users were spied several times a day, but others were victims of hundreds of attacks within a week.