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Security Researcher Found Loophole by Which to Send SMSes From Government IDs
This particular loophole has been fixed since this time, and can not be used. By Gopal Sathe | Updated: 24 May 2021 10:00 IST
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Highlights
Anyone could have sent messages from official IDs using this
The loophole was fixed by April owing to TRAI s changes in SMS rules
Publicly shared usernames and passwords for the government s SMS publishing platform meant that a malicious user could have used the official machinery to send text messages posing as the government. Sai Krishna Kothapalli, a security researcher in Hyderabad, found the credentials while searching through public repositories, but he says that this particular issue has now been mitigated thanks to an unrelated change to the SMS infrastructure.
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