BOSTON: A United Nations group that advises nations on cybersecurity plans to send out an alert about significant vulnerabilities in mobile phone technology that could potentially enable hackers to remotely attack at least half a billion phones.
The bug, discovered by a German firm, allows hackers to remotely gain control of and also clone certain mobile SIM cards.
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