{"id":40387,"date":"2021-04-09T15:52:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T15:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/32182\/How-Your-Phone-Can-Be-Hacked-For-16.html"},"modified":"2021-04-09T15:52:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T15:52:10","slug":"how-your-phone-can-be-hacked-for-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/how-your-phone-can-be-hacked-for-16\/","title":{"rendered":"How Your Phone Can Be Hacked For $16"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"32\">\n<div><picture class=\"responsive-image lazyloader--lazy lazyloader--lowres\"><source media=\"(min-width: 1000px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/articles\/606f5aa7aec4ee00949ae6b0\/lede\/1617910588927-super-final-final.jpeg?crop=1xw:1xh;center,center&amp;resize=20:*\"><source media=\"(min-width: 700px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/articles\/606f5aa7aec4ee00949ae6b0\/lede\/1617910588927-super-final-final.jpeg?crop=1xw:1xh;center,center&amp;resize=20:*\"><source media=\"(min-width: 0px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/articles\/606f5aa7aec4ee00949ae6b0\/lede\/1617910588927-super-final-final.jpeg?crop=1xw:1xh;center,center&amp;resize=20:*\"><img class=\"responsive-image__img\" alt=\"super-final-final\"><\/picture><\/div>\n<p>Illustration by Michelle Urra<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"BodyComponentRenderer\" readability=\"35.918497109827\"><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"29.010989010989\"><\/p>\n<p>What if you were told your phone could be hacked for $16 and all of the texts that were meant for you could somehow be rerouted to someone else with nefarious designs on your most personal exchanges? Would you believe it? This isn\u2019t some sort of laborious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/topic\/sim-swapping\"><span>SIM swapping<\/span><\/a> hack nor would you even be able to notice that anything peculiar was happening to your phone.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span><\/p>\n<div class=\"adph adph--border\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"28.852459016393\"><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a real thing and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/y3g8wb\/hacker-got-my-texts-16-dollars-sakari-netnumber\"><span>it happened to Motherboard reporter Joseph Cox <\/span><\/a>who is on the show this week to talk more about how a hacker named Lucky225 alerted him to a potentially devastating, yet simple, hack. 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