Recording PCAPs from Stingrays With a $20 Hotspot
Cooper Quintin, oopsbagel
DEF CON 33 · Day 1 · Main Stage
Cell-site simulators — commonly known as Stingrays, IMSI catchers, or IMEI grabbers — are surveillance devices used by law enforcement agencies worldwide to track and intercept mobile devices. Despite
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Twenty-dollar commodity hardware producing forensic-quality LTE PCAP evidence of stingray IMSI disclosure events — this democratizes counter-surveillance documentation in a way that changes the civil liberties calculus.