There has recently been some coverage in the press about a vulnerability to mobile phones from 2G and the best way to stop this is to switch 2G off. My EE sim does not give me access to 2G waveband, see below.
Google has now broadened out its counter-intercept campaign with a warning for users to disable 2G altogether to prevent simpler SMS Blaster attacks. This is where cell-site simulators don’t go as far as full intercept, but instead “inject SMS phishing messages directly into smartphones… [to] entirely bypass the carrier network, thus bypassing all the sophisticated network-based anti-spam and anti-fraud filters.”
