Citizen Lab uncovers two surveillance vendor campaigns abusing telecom networks to track phone locations
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Summary
Security researchers at Citizen Lab have uncovered two separate spying campaigns where surveillance vendors are abusing weaknesses in global telecom infrastructure to track people's phone locations. The report highlights that these two campaigns likely represent a small fraction of widespread exploitation by surveillance vendors seeking access to phone networks. The findings detail how vendors are abusing the backbone of cellular networks to spy on victims worldwide, continuing a pattern of surveillance abuse that Citizen Lab has documented for over a decade.
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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 Citizen Lab, a digital rights organization with more than a decade of experience exposing surveillance abuses, published a new report detailing the two newly identified campaigns.
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