New 4G/5G flaws can reveal target's location and intercept calls

This report comes from TechCrunch where a group of university researchers have found three major flaws in the security of 4G and 5G technologies that are susceptible to hackers gaining location information, intercepting phone calls, and targeted phishing attacks. These vulnerabilities are said to affect 4G networks and the incoming 5G network that all phone makers and industries are raving about. The group is made up of researchers from the Universtity of Iowa (Mitziu Echeverria, Omar Chowdhury) and Perdue University (Syed Rafuil Hussain, Ninghui Li, Elisa Bertino). The first attack is...