A Denial of Service Attack to GSM Networks via Attach Procedure Nicola Gobbo, Alessio Merlo, Mauro Migliardi To cite this version: Nicola Gobbo, Alessio Merlo, Mauro Migliardi. A Denial of Service Attack to GSM Networks via At- tach Procedure. 1st Cross-Domain Conference and Workshop on Availability, Reliability, and Security in Information Systems (CD-ARES), Sep 2013, Regensburg, Germany. pp.361-376. hal-01506555 HAL Id: hal-01506555 https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01506555 Submitted on 12 Apr 2017 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution| 4.0 International License A Denial of Service attack to GSM networks via Attach Procedure Nicola Gobbo1, Alessio Merlo2, and Mauro Migliardi1 1 Universit`adegli Studi di Padova
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[email protected] Abstract. Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) keep a strict control over users accessing the networks by means of the Subscribe Identity Mod- ule (SIM). This module grants the user to access the network, by per- forming the registration and authentication of the user's device. Without a valid SIM module and a successful authentication, mobile devices are not granted access and, hence, they are not allowed to inject any traffic in the mobile infrastructure.