New Sni5Gect Attack Crashes Phones and Downgrades 5G to 4G without Rogue Base Station
New Sni5Gect Attack Crashes Phones and Downgrades 5G to 4G without Rogue Base Station
26 August 2025
A team of academics has devised a novel attack that can be used to downgrade a 5G connection to a lower generation without relying on a rogue base station (gNB).
The attack, per the ASSET (Automated Systems SEcuriTy) Research Group at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), relies on a new open-source software toolkit named Sni5Gect (short for "Sniffing 5G Inject") that's