USB and Bluetooth accessories can be used to attack Android phones and spy on owners

A group of security researchers has discovered an exploit that lets Bluetooth and USB accessories wreak all sorts of havoc on multiple Android smartphones. In both cases, the door of entry was the cellphone modem, or baseband, which is found inside all smartphones.

Once a phone has been compromised via the baseband, multiple kinds of disruptions can be heaped on it: complete blockage of all incoming phone calls, selective call blocking, call forwarding to a different number, cutting off of cellular internet connectivity (e.g., 3G/4G), interception of phone calls and text messages, and owner location and activity tracking.

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