Category Archives: Telecommunications

Pakistani man allegedly paid AT&T employees big bucks to jailbreak millions of iPhones

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A 34-year-old Pakistani man has been charged with paying AT&T employees more than $1 million to plant malicious software that make it possible to use iPhones outside AT&T’s controls, the U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday. Muhammad Fahd conspired with another man, Ghulam Jiwani, according to a newly unsealed indictment. The scheme, which lasted in some form from April 2012 to September 2017, involved the two men approaching AT&T employees, often through Facebook or by phone, then offering cash in exchange for the employees’ agreement to unlock specific phones, based on their identifying IMEI codes. The scheme unlocked more than 2 million cell phones over the five-year span, prosecutors say. Unlocked devices are compatible with any cell carrier, depriving “the remaining value of the customer’s service contract and, if applicable, remaining payments under the customer’s installment plan,” according to the indictment. Fahd, who also went by the name Frank Zhang, operated under […]

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Cybereason raises $200 million for its enterprise security platform

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Cybereason, which uses machine learning to increase the number of endpoints a single analyst can manage across a network of distributed resources, has raised $200 million in new financing from SoftBank Group and its affiliates.  It’s a sign of the belief that SoftBank has in the technology, since the Japanese investment firm is basically doubling […] Continue reading Cybereason raises $200 million for its enterprise security platform→

United Airlines CISO Emily Heath joins TC Sessions: Enterprise this September

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In an era of massive data breaches, most recently the Capital One fiasco, the risk of a cyberattack and the costly consequences are the top existential threat to corporations big and small. At TechCrunch’s first-ever enterprise-focused event (p.s. early bird sales end August 9), that topic will be front and center throughout the day. That’s […] Continue reading United Airlines CISO Emily Heath joins TC Sessions: Enterprise this September→

Phishing is a billion-dollar global industry, consumers are the main target

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Phishing is a growing pain point for individuals, businesses and CSPs, according to Allot. Consumers are the main target of these attacks, and they are calling for better security for their data and financial information. The research shows that they a… Continue reading Phishing is a billion-dollar global industry, consumers are the main target→

Impersonate The President With Consumer-Grade SDR

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In April of 2018, the Federal Emergency Management Agency sent out the very first “Presidential Alert”, a new class of emergency notification that could be pushed out in addition to the weather and missing child messages that most users were already familiar with. But while those other messages are localized …read more

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Chinese spies have been sucking up call records at multinational telecoms, researchers say

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Chinese hackers have hit the soft underbelly of global telecommunications companies to siphon off hundreds of gigabytes of data, according to an investigation by security company Cybereason. The long-running hacking campaign, which has breached about 10 cellular providers in Africa, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, bears all the hallmarks of an intelligence operation, Cybereason researchers said. In one instance, the spies targeted roughly 20 customers of a cellular provider. “No one siphons out hundreds of gigabytes of data about a very specific amount of individuals unless it’s for intelligence [purposes],” said Amit Serper, principal security researcher at Cybereason, which published research on the campaign Tuesday.“The attackers knew exactly what they were after.” Cybereason declined to name the breached telecommunications providers, but said they had hundreds of millions of customers in total. Since at least 2017, the hackers have burrowed their way, computer by computer, deep into the victim organizations until they had […]

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Signify uses office lights for 250 Mbps wireless data transfer

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Though most of make use of radio waves to wirelessly send and receive data to and from our work mobile devices and computers, there is another way. Signify – or Philips Lighting as it used to be known – has just launched a new lighting range … Continue reading Signify uses office lights for 250 Mbps wireless data transfer→

UK’s Largest Mobile Carrier Relies on AWS and Imperva FlexProtect for Web Delivery and 360-Degree Application Protection

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In today’s highly-competitive telecommunications market, the website is integral to successful and fast customer service. Downtime due to intrusion, data breach, or DDoS attack is intolerable. It’s why ten of the largest global telecommunic… Continue reading UK’s Largest Mobile Carrier Relies on AWS and Imperva FlexProtect for Web Delivery and 360-Degree Application Protection→

5G subscriptions to reach 1.9 billion in 2024, critical IoT connections on the rise

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Rapid early momentum and enthusiasm for 5G has led Ericsson to forecast an extra 400 million enhanced mobile broadband subscriptions globally by the end of 2024. The June 2019 edition of the Ericsson Mobility Report forecasts 1.9 billion 5G subscriptio… Continue reading 5G subscriptions to reach 1.9 billion in 2024, critical IoT connections on the rise→

Researchers uncover new MuddyWater targeting of government, telecommunications entities

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Undeterred by the reported dumping of its data online, an Iran-linked hacking group has been using malicious documents and files to target telecommunications organizations and impersonate government entities in Iraq, Pakistan, and Tajikistan, researchers said Thursday. The so-called MuddyWater group has been carrying out attacks in two stages against the targets, according to research published by Israeli company ClearSky Cyber Security. The first stage uses lure documents to exploit a known vulnerability in Microsoft Office that allows for remote code execution. The second stage lets the attackers communicate with hacked servers to download an infected file. “This is the first time MuddyWater has used these two vectors in conjunction,” ClearSky said in its research, which warned that just three antivirus engines were detecting the malicious documents analyzed. In one example, a document disguised as a United Nations development plan for Tajikistan was actually packed with malware. The malware was uploaded to VirusTotal, the […]

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