Stealth Cell Tower, it is an antagonistic GSM base station concealed in an office printer that could be used for surveillance purposes. Are you angry with your boss or your colleagues? Do you want to spy on them? The engineer Julian Oliver has demonstrated how to do it with a tiny cellphone base station concealed in […]
All of the mysterious cell phone towers in the U.S. can now be pinpointed – But most of them are not the U.S. government’s. That’s the word from Les Goldsmith, the CEO of ESD America. His company, which made public last year the existence of the interceptors, is today announcing the launch of its real-time Overwatch […]
Malware authors in China are using fake base transceiver stations (BTSs), which is equipment usually installed on cellular telephone towers, to send spoofed SMS messages that contain links to Android malware. This is the first ever reported case when malware authors have used base stations to spread malware, a trend that Avast predicted in 2014, […]
During the last weeks we’ve been investigating multiple aspects of GSM security such as protocol vulnerabilities as well as source auditing the world’s most common open source software products that run GSM networks. In this post we’ll share the details about multiple vulnerabilities in such software which allow an attacker to compromise a BTS station, […]
Seventeen mysterious cellphone towers have been found in America which can only be identified by a heavily customized handset built for Android security – but seem to be built to spy on passing cellphone users, according to Popular Science.