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APN Change Detection

Created by: MatejKovacic

I am pretty sure we all heard story about Hacking Team being hacked and their data, including e-mails, published. Now, there is one interesting e-mail here: https://wikileaks.org/hackingteam/emails/emailid/449991

It says:

*Data transmission from mobiles: we have 2 ways here.

  1. the solution is able to detect open wi-fi networks and preconfigured/saved networks­.

  2. the client can buy from the Telco operator an APN. It’s not necessary to tell the Telco why.

The traffic generated by the backdoor will be automatically diverted on the new APN so that the monitored person will see nothing suspicious on his bill.*

BTW, this APN is not visible on mobile phone's APN configuration list https://wikileaks.org/hackingteam/emails/emailid/449991

on windows mobile is invisible, on symbian is invisible as well... on Blackberry it's not visible in the list

So... it seems a good idea to try to detect APN change.

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