CLONING

• The production of an exact copy of an object is called as cloning.

INTRODUCTION

• Transaction from your account without your permission.

• Busy signal in the phone or more wrong number.

You might have heard

• Scan the SIM to extract IMSI

and Ki, the 128 bit key.

• Now put the IMSI and Ki into some card software.

• And then copy it into a new SIM card.

• We now have a cloned SIM

How to clone a SIM card?

• Frequent receiving of wrong numbers.

• Problem in placing outgoing calls.

• Incoming calls constantly receiving busy signals.

How to know that your SIM card has been cloned ?

• When you swipe your card through the machine , skimmer present on the extracts your card details.

• A skimmer is a device that fits over the card acceptance slot and steals the data stored on the card's magnetic stripe.

How to clone a card?

Skimmer

EMV CARDS

• EMV is beyond the card itself. There's a chip on the card that cannot be cloned, thus defeating the efforts of cloning the card by skimming it over a reader

• It's a physical device on the card itself, not "virtual" or encoded onto the card.

• If you lose your credit card, inform your credit card company immediately

• Use chip based credit cards.

• Stay attentive , when presenting your card at a shop or restaurant

PROTECTION METHODS

• Use EMV cards.

• Introduction of PIN while performing transaction.

• Confirmation of big transaction from bank.

PROTECTION METHODS BY GOVT./BANK

• Loss of money for both banks and its customer.

• Illegal activities.

DISADVANTAGE

• Duplicacy SIM.

• Duplicacy of credit/debit cards.

- Due to damage or loss.

ADVANTAGE

DEVANSH KHANNA

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B.Tech