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Researchers from the i2CAT Foundation, the University of Murcia, and NEC Laboratories Europe built a low-cost tool called 5G-Shark that lures a target phone onto a fake base station and questions it, then used it to audit commercial 5G networks.
Summary
On the standalone-5G networks they tested, operators concealed the phone’s permanent identity correctly in every case but one. The same networks still handed out temporary IDs in a pattern predictable enough that an observer can ...
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