16 March 2021, 11:08 am EDT By
A newly discovered cybersecurity threat came to light after a reporter revealed telecom companies can reroute a person s text messages to a hacker for a measly amount of $16.
To demonstrate the flaw, Motherboard reporter Joseph Cox shared how a hacker successfully carried out an attack targeting his phone number.
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Using an SMS redirection service by a company called Sakari, the hacker did not only manage to break into Cox s text messages without consent, but he was also able to receive and reply to the reporter s text messages without his knowledge.
Cox, later on, contacted other companies that offer SMS redirection services and was told that they had seen this sort of attack before.