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Surveillance vendors caught abusing access to telcos to track people’s phone locations, researchers say

Surveillance vendors caught abusing access to telcos to track people’s phone locations, researchers say

Security researchers have uncovered two separate spying campaigns that are abusing well-known weaknesses in the global telecoms infrastructure to track people’s locations. The researchers say these two campaigns are likely a small snapshot of what… 

A surveillance vendor was caught exploiting a new SS7 attack to track people’s phone locations

A surveillance vendor was caught exploiting a new SS7 attack to track people’s phone locations

Security researchers say they have caught a surveillance company in the Middle East exploiting a new attack capable of tricking phone operators into disclosing a cell subscriber’s location. The attack relies on bypassing security protections…