Rayhunter: Device to Detect Cellular Surveillance

The EFF has created an open-source hardware tool to detect IMSI catchers: fake cell phone towers that are used for mass surveillance of an area. It runs on a $20 mobile hotspot...

Man pleads guilty to selling WhatsApp hacking tool, Signal Jammers & StingRays

By Waqas Carlos Guerrero, a prominent businessman marketed and sold hacking tools, IMSI catchers, and other malicious tools to clients… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Man pleads guilty to selling WhatsApp hacking tool, Signal Jammers & StingRays...

IMSI-Catchers from Canada

Gizmodo is reporting that Harris Corp. is no longer selling Stingray IMSI-catchers and, presumably, its follow-on models Hailstorm and Crossbow to local governments: L3Harris Technologies, formerly known as the Harris Corporation, notified police agencies last year that it planned to discontinue...

New Attacks Against 4G, 5G Mobile Networks Re-Enable IMSI Catchers

At NDSS Symposium 2019, a group of university researchers yesterday revealed newly discovered cellular network vulnerabilities that impact both 4G and 5G LTE protocols. According to a paper published by the researchers, "Privacy Attacks to the 4G and 5G Cellular Paging Protocols Using Side Channe...

Detecting Stingrays

Researchers are developing technologies that can detect IMSI-catchers: those fake cell phone towers that can be used to surveil people in the area. This is good work, but it's unclear to me whether these devices can detect all the newer IMSI-catchers that are being sold to governments worldwide...

BlackBerry CEO Defends Lawful Access Principles, Supports Phone Hack

BlackBerry’s CEO made the company’s stance on lawful access requests clear this week and is defending actions to provide Canadian law enforcement with what it needed to decrypt communications between devices. The company’s CEO John Chen penned a statement on Monday, reiterating that one of...

Android IMSI-Catcher Detector: AIMSICD

AIMSICD is an app to detect IMSI-Catchers . IMSI-Catchers are false mobile towers base stations acting between the target mobile phones and the real towers of service providers. As such they are considered a Man-In-The-Middle MITM attack. In the USA the IMSI-Catcher technology is known under the...

Cellular Privacy, SS7 Security Shattered at 31C3

The recently concluded Chaos Communications Congress 31c3 in Hamburg, Germany was an all-out assault on cellular call privacy and security. Of particular interest was the SS7 protocol used to route calls between switching centers. Researchers, doing parallel research as it turns out, found gaping...

Spy Planes Equipped with Dirtbox Devices Collecting Smartphone Data

The U.S. government is reportedly using spy airplanes equipped with special military-grade snooping equipment to eavesdrop on cell phone information from millions of smartphone users in U.S, according to a new report. This little device, nicknamed "Dirtbox", is being used to mimic mobile phone...

How a Cell Phone User Can be Secretly Tracked Across the Globe

Since we are living in an era of Mass surveillance conducted by Government as well as private sector industries, and with the boom in surveillance technology, we should be much worried about our privacy. According to the companies that create surveillance solutions for law enforcement and...