
All cyberattackers need to do is to follow the "Forgot account?" procedure through Facebook's homepage, and when asked for a phone number or email address, offer the legitimate phone number. The security flaw lies within the network and how SS7 handles these requests, rather than a bug on Facebook's platform. However, a network based on SS7 will, by default, trust messages sent over it - no matter where the message originated from.

SS7 is a protocol developed in 1975 which is used worldwide to define how networks in a public switched telephone network (PSTN) exchange information over a digital signaling network.


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