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This list: https://opensource.srlabs.de/projects/mobile-network-assessment-tools/wiki/CatcherCatcher https://opensource.srlabs.de/projects/mobile-network-asses
by rsync 4y ago
This list:
https://opensource.srlabs.de/projects/mobile-network-assessment-tools/wiki/CatcherCatcher https://opensource.srlabs.de/projects/mobile-network-assessm...
... continues to be the best checklist of suspicious or incorrect behavior that would indicate the base station to which you were connected was not a real base station.
Scroll down to the "IMSI catcher detection" table and see behaviors like:
- Cell is not advertising any neighbor cells
- The LAC of a base station changes
- Your phone sends at the highest possible power
Many of these behaviors to test are GSM specific however the attacker can perform a downgrade attack and force your 4G phone to collapse down to 2G service, thus exposing you to these.