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

The Citizen Lab found two separate surveillance vendors abusing the backbone of cellular networks to spy on several victims across the world.

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Apr 24 at 5:08amWeb
Show threadBredrollApr 24
@scriptkiddie i also wonder how honest or well protected the whole "find my device" ecosystem is, since they all just work by hoovering up Bluetooth mac addresses and location data
Show threadQCCEクリスApr 25
@Bredroll @scriptkiddie Short answer: It's not