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

source: techcrunch.com/2026/04/23/surv…

#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.

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