An attacker with right skills and toolkit can easily hijack any mobile phone by just sending a SMS according to Trust Digital.
SMS Midnight Raid Business Card Attack
A "Midnight Raid Attack", In this type of attack an attacker sends message to your mobile phone, this message will automatically open mobile phone web browser and redirect to a malicious website download and install a malicious software on to mobile phone. After the installation of malicious software attacker can steal useful information from the mobile phone very easily
SMS Hot Spot Business Card Attack
In another type of attack an attacker sends a special type of message called as “Control Message” over GSM network to some mobile phone using Wi-Fi network and then attacker start looking for victims email login information using special tool kits. It just like monitoring internet traffic of mobile phone users.
Understanding SMS Business Card Attack
According to Trust Digital
Smartphone mobility presents new security and management challenges for Enterprise IT. Because smartphones converge both voice and data their security threats are numerous and constantly changing. One such example is the widely used communications technology of SMS messaging. Although consumers think of SMS as “text messaging” for cell phones, SMS is a far richer protocol that can be used as an attack vector
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