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Two Billion Phones Vulnerable to Over-the-Air Delivered Risks

August 8, 2014

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Security researchers have dissected the over-the-air (OTA) communication mechanisms, learned how it works and its flaws, and abused it with custom code that allowed execution of code leading to complete compromise of the mobile phone.Mathew Solnik and Marc Blanchou of Accuvant Labs prepared the presentation for the Black Hat security conference taking place in Las Vegas this week, where they also demonstrated OTA code execution.Reaching the phone wirelessly offers an attacker the possibility t…