Surveillance vendors caught abusing access to telcos to track people’s phone locations, researchers say
Summary
TechCrunch reports on two surveillance campaigns that abused weaknesses in global telecom signaling (SS7 and Diameter) to track people’s locations. The piece details ghost vendors piggybacking on telecom infrastructure, with providers like 019Mobile and Tango Networks implicated, and discusses responses from Sure (Airtel Jersey) while highlighting ongoing privacy and security risks in mobile networks.