Exploiting MMS Vulnerabilities to Stealthily Exhaust Mobile Phone’s Battery

Exploiting MMS Vulnerabilities to Stealthily Exhaust Mobile Phone’s Battery
In this paper, we demonstrate such an attack, which surreptitiously drains mobile devices’ battery power up to 22 times faster and therefore could render these devices useless before the end of business hours. This attack targets a unique resource bottleneck in mobile devices (the battery power) by exploiting an insecure cellular data service (MMS) and the insecure interaction between cellular data networks and the Internet (PDP context retention and the paging channel).
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05.09.2006