Potential fraudulent usage in mobile telecommunications networks
Yi‐Bing Lin, Mingfeng Chen, Herman Chung-Hwa Rao · IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing · 2002
This paper investigates the fraudulent usage of mobile telecommunications services due to cloned subscriber identity modules (SIMs). In GSM or the Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS), a mobile phone or mobile station uses its SIM to gain network access through authentication. If the SIM of a legal user is cloned, then the cloned SIM can be used for GSM/UMTS authentication and fraudulent usage may occur. Under the existing GSM/UMTS mobility management and call setup procedures, we show how quickly the fraudulent usage can be detected. We also propose a simple solution to speed up the detection of potential fraudulent usage.