NEW: Researchers have identified extensive spying campaigns abusing well-known weaknesses in the global cellphone infrastructure to track and locate targets.

Two (unnamed for now) surveillance vendors, whose customers are likely government agencies, were allegedly behind these spy campaigns.

The research exposes an industry that remains still largely in the shadows, armed with tech that can track people without the need to use spyware such as Pegasus.

http://techcrunch.com/2026/04/23/surveillance-vendors-caught-abusing-access-to-telcos-to-track-peoples-phone-locations-researchers-say/