Facebook accounts can be hijacked with just the target's phone number and some hacking skills. That's because of weaknesses in the part of telecoms networks backbone called SS7, long known to be ...

How hackers eavesdropped on a US Congressman using only his phone number SS7 routing protocol also exposes locations, contacts, and other sensitive data.

In 2014, Karsten Nohl first demonstrated how the SS7 system could be used to track a user’s physical location, and subsequent work showed how bad actors on the network could intercept texts and ...

Hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress 31c3 is under way in Hamburg, Germany right now where three SS7 talks have revealed the ease of invasive cell phone surveillance.

While knowledge of vulnerabilities to the SS7 system will not be news to the telecoms industry, this increased level of exposure will likely increase the pressure on operators to take action and make ...

The new SS7 bypass attack tricks phone operators into disclosing a cell subscriber's location, in some cases down to a few hundred meters.

Thieves drain 2fa-protected bank accounts by abusing SS7 routing protocol The same weakness could be used to eavesdrop on calls and track users’ locations.

An attack on phone network routing system Signaling System 7 (SS7) allowed hackers to intercept two-factor authentication messages and drain the bank accounts of targets.

The same security flaws that cursed the older SS7 standard and were used with 3G, 2G and earlier are prevalent in the Diameter protocol used with today's 4G (LTE) telephony and data transfer standard, ...