My SIM is Leaking My Data: Exposing Self-Login Privacy Breaches in Smartphones

03/18/2020
by   Andrea Coletta, et al.
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We expose a new security leak for smartphone users, which allows to stole user personal data by accessing the mobile operator user page when auto-login is employed. We show how any "apparently" genuine app can steal these data from some mobile operators, affecting more than 80% of Italian mobile smartphones.

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