CAPECattack pattern
CAPEC-617 Cellular Rogue Base Station
Low
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- Abstraction
- Detailed
- Status
- Draft
- Typical severity
- Low
- CAPEC version
- 3.9
Description
In this attack scenario, the attacker imitates a cellular base station with their own "rogue" base station equipment. Since cellular devices connect to whatever station has the strongest signal, the attacker can easily convince a targeted cellular device (e.g. the retransmission device) to talk to the rogue base station.
Prerequisites
• None
Skills required
• [Low] This technique has been demonstrated by amateur hackers and commercial tools and open source projects are available to automate the attack.
Consequences
• Confidentiality: Read Data
Mitigations
• Passively monitor cellular network connection for real-time threat detection and logging for manual review.
Related
Child of · CAPEC (1)
- CAPEC-616 Establish Rogue Location attack pattern