New, by me: A Middle East surveillance vendor has been caught exploiting a new attack in SS7, a set of protocols used by phone carriers, that can trick a phone operator into disclosing a person's phone location without their knowledge.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/18/a-surveillance-vendor-was-caught-exploiting-a-new-ss7-attack-to-track-peoples-phone-locations/
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