Beware! Your mobile phone can spy on you

Cyber security experts at AdaptiveMobile Security, a Dublin-based mobile security company, has recently revealed the existence of a new and previously undetected critical vulnerability in SIM cards that could allow remote attackers to compromise targeted mobile phones and spy on victims.

The experts named the attack ‘Simjacker’ as it involves an SMS containing a specific type of spyware-like code being sent to a mobile phone, which then instructs the UICC (which is the SIM card) within the phone to ‘take over’ the phone, to retrieve and perform sensitive commands.