CAPECattack pattern
CAPEC-610 Cellular Data Injection
High
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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