Podcast: GTP Threatens Security Flaws in LTE and 5G Networks

Positive Technologies – a global cyber security company that helps network operators drive business performance while protecting their customers and services by providing greater visibility into infrastructure vulnerabilities, securing customer services, and protecting emerging telecoms technologies such as 5G and IoT – recently released a new research report that outlines security flaws in LTE and 5G networks. The vulnerabilities, which lie in the communications protocol called GTP – used to transmit user data and control traffic on 2G, 3G, and 4G networks – could enable cybercriminals to leave an entire city without communications, impersonate users, and get free mobile service at the expense of an operator or customer. In this podcast, Jimmy Jones, Telecoms Cybersecurity Expert discusses the findings, based on security assessments wherein Positive Technologies experts simulated the actions of would-be hackers to find vulnerabilities and help mobile operators secure networks. Among them, 83% of simulated attacks that would cause network equipment to go out of service were successful; 68% of attempted fraud attacks were successful; and 73% of attacks that would let criminals use free mobile services were possible. Jimmy Jones Visit https://positive-tech.com/