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A SIM card can hack your smartphone

A specially prepared SIM card can, on some devices, give commands to the phone and trigger actions normally beyond its reach.
A weakness in SIM cards allows attackers to issue malicious commands to cellular modems, enabling code execution and data theft, knocking devices offline and potentially downgrading smart devices to ...
Standardized SIM command from the modem era lets a hostile card run code inside an EV charger ...