Korean telco failed at femtocell security, exposed customers to snooping and fraud

Theregister | 30-12-2025 04:52pm |

One cert, in plaintext, on thousands of devices, led to what looks like years of crime South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT has found that local carrier Korea Telecom (KT) deployed thousands of badly secured femtocells, leading to an attack that enabled micropayments fraud and snooping on customers’ communications – maybe for years....

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