SimJacker is the trending vulnerability concerning mobile SIM cards, which allows malware to be injected through
it. Luckily, it has been reported that it does not affect Spain, for now.
Vulnerability, which we have told you about on various occasions (you can find the news through the following links:SIM cards are not as secure as previously thought andNew vulnerability exposes the integrity of our SIM cards), it resides in sending commands to the card without requiring any type of authentication.
The problem is very serious and has no easy solution. In addition, the
the user is not aware when they are attacked, since there is no indication that could make them suspect they are being the victim of a cyberattack. However, it has been reported that the Spanish
cards are spared from SimJacker.
According to a recent publication, a total of 61
telephony operators from 29 different countries have this vulnerability in their SIM cards.
The affected countries are in the following list, although it is not definitive:
- Mexico.
- Guatemala.
- Belize.
- Dominican Republic.
- El Salvador.
- Honduras.
- Panama.
- Nicaragua.
- Costa Rica.
- Brasil.
- Peru.
- Colombia.
- Ecuador.
- Chile.
- Argentina.
- Uruguay.
- Paraguay.
- Ivory Coast.
- Ghana.
- Benin.
- Nigeria.
- Cameroon.
- Italy.
- Bulgaria.
- Cyprus.
- Saudi Arabia.
- Iraq.
- Lebanon.
- Palestine.
En España, for now, there is no reason to be alarmed.