Mobile Hacking with SDR (2G to 5G)
Three days assessing mobile devices and networks with software-defined radio. We demonstrate attacks in practice, mostly on user equipment but also on the core network, across phones, IoT modules, connected cars and infrastructure.
- Tell 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G apart and their security mechanisms
- Downgrade security mechanisms and run protocol attacks
- Set up a 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G network on a bench
- Hunt for vulnerabilities in basebands
- Attack core networks from the outside and the inside
- Get the first reflexes to attack embedded and IoT systems
- Mobile and telecom security teams
- Device and module makers
- Red teamers extending into mobile
- Researchers on private networks
Three days, day by day.
Theory then assignments on a real network you stand up yourself.
Networks, setup and SIM cards
Attacks and going further on 5G
What every attendee takes home.
Attendees keep the kit, the tooling and the captures.
- Hardware kit
- bladeRF 2.0 micro xA4, kept by the attendee
- Docker container
- Toolchain, scripts and captures preloaded
- Slides and tools
- Full deck and the tools used in class
- Captures
- Real network captures cleared for teaching
Prerequisites.
A laptop running Linux
8 GB of RAM minimum
Programming and Linux
Knowledge of Linux and a language such as C, C++, C# or Python is needed
Radio knowledge is a plus
Not mandatory
Your trainer.
Published research on 5G security, Open RAN, baseband fuzzing, interception and mapping, and power-line communication in electric vehicles and charging stations. Practical work across Wi-Fi, RFID and other wireless systems.
Publications →Run it privately for your team.
Quoted per group, not per seat, and the content adapts to your stack. Remote live, on your site, or at our offices near Paris.