Want to sell a Nokia Cellphone??? Why??
May 2009
Nokia: We don’t know why criminals want our old phones. The mystery why cybercriminals want a discontinued Nokia phone is not getting any clearer. Hackers have been offering up to US$32,413 in undergrounds forums for Nokia 1100 phones made in the company’s former factory in Bochum, Germany. The phone can allegedly be hacked so as to facilitate illegal online banking transfers, according to the Dutch company Ultrascan Advanced Global Investigations. Nokia maintains the phone’s software is not flawed. “We have not identified any phone software problem that would allow alleged use cases,” the company said in an e-mailed statement. The 1100 can apparently be reprogrammed to use someone else’s phone number, which would also let the device receive text messages. That capability opens up an opportunity for online banking fraud.
Nokia: We don’t know why criminals want our old phones. The mystery why cybercriminals want a discontinued Nokia phone is not getting any clearer. Hackers have been offering up to US$32,413 in undergrounds forums for Nokia 1100 phones made in the company’s former factory in Bochum, Germany. The phone can allegedly be hacked so as to facilitate illegal online banking transfers, according to the Dutch company Ultrascan Advanced Global Investigations. Nokia maintains the phone’s software is not flawed. “We have not identified any phone software problem that would allow alleged use cases,” the company said in an e-mailed statement. The 1100 can apparently be reprogrammed to use someone else’s phone number, which would also let the device receive text messages. That capability opens up an opportunity for online banking fraud.
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