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Comment by DangerousPie

6 hours ago

They also demonstrated how this could be used to silently find out someone’s phone number and then hijack a TFA validation call from an app like WhatsApp to take over their account with no user interaction.

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Fnoord  5 hours ago

This attack was not silent, it was noisy. They specifically pointed that out in their talk.

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