Surveillance vendors caught abusing access to telcos to track peoples phone locations, researchers say | TechCrunch
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- 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 they believe to be widespread exploitation of surveillance vendors seeking access to global phone networks.
- The surveillance vendors behind them, which Citizen Lab did not name, operated as “ghost” companies that pretended to be legitimate cellular providers.
- They would piggyback their access to those networks to look up the location data of their targets.
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