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SUMMARY:LTECruiser: An Extremely low cost LTE Experimentation Framework - 
 Edoardo Mantovani
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UID:pretalx-hack-lu-2026-GTHNAM@pretalx.com
DESCRIPTION:LTECruiser turns a 14€ LTE USB dongle into a firmware experi
 mentation platform for cellular protocols and baseband security research. 
 In this talk\, we show how the ML307A\, an inexpensive USB LTE Cat. 1 mode
 m sold for IoT use by ASR Microelectronics\, can be repurposed into a prac
 tical research platform through public firmware artifacts\, an exposed dia
 gnostic port\, existing vendor tools and AT command interfaces.\nStarting 
 from the ELF firmware with debugging data available on GitHub\, we documen
 t the internal code structure of the LTE modem by analyzing its boot phase
  and the related paths for handling received/transmitted data from the lay
 er 1 co-processor\, we then build a cross-platform userspace framework for
  Linux and Windows to communicate with the modem through AT commands\, dum
 p memory\, patch live firmware and inject custom ARM32 code at runtime. We
  then use these primitives to explore the baseband code and demonstrate ho
 w this ultra low cost device can be pushed far beyond its intended role\, 
 showing the implementation of a LTE sniffer through firmware patching in a
  controlled environment. The result is an extremely cheap\, widely availab
 le and practical platform for LTE security research based on commodity off
 -the-shelf (COTS) hardware.
LOCATION:Europe
URL:https://pretalx.com/hack-lu-2026/talk/GTHNAM/
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