CAPECattack pattern

CAPEC-610 Cellular Data Injection

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Abstraction
Standard
Status
Stable
Typical severity
High
CAPEC version
3.9

Description

Adversaries inject data into mobile technology traffic (data flows or signaling data) to disrupt communications or conduct additional surveillance operations.

Prerequisites

• None

Skills required

• [High] Often achieved by nation states in conjunction with commercial cellular providers to conduct cellular traffic intercept and possible traffic injection.

Consequences

• Availability: Resource Consumption • Availability: Modify Data

Mitigations

• Commercial defensive technology to detect and alert to any attempts to modify mobile technology data flows or to inject new data into existing data flows and signaling data.

Related

Child of · CAPEC (1)

  • CAPEC-240 Resource Injection attack pattern