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Mobile networks are essential for modern societies. High bandwidth and low latency communications for massive numbers of subscribers have enabled various applications with much impact on life quality. However, the widespread of mobile network communications has also increased the interest in security and privacy issues. In this work, a known 4G and 5G NSA vulnerability, attach request fingerprinting, is examined in detail and a novel classification method for attach request fingerprinting is proposed and extensively evaluated. The novel method significantly increases the severity of the privacy attack.
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Fraunholz, D., Brunke, D., Dumanski, L., Koenig, H. (2023). Automating Device Fingerprinting Attacks in 4G and 5G NSA Mobile Networks. In: Jourdan, GV., Mounier, L., Adams, C., Sèdes, F., Garcia-Alfaro, J. (eds) Foundations and Practice of Security. FPS 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13877. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30122-3_12
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