Researchers from Tel-Aviv based ‘Pandora Security’ have discovered a new wave of SS7 attacks that targeted at least twenty subscribers of the ‘Partner Communications Company’ (former ‘Orange Israel’) telecom services provider and these targets are also members of cryptocurrency projects. The actors were well prepared and feared that they have an account password and now targetting SMS codes to defeat two-factor authentication.
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