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 ...

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.

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, ...

SS7 routing-protocol breach of US cellular carrier exposed customer data 40-year-old SS7 is being actively used to track user locations and communications.

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.

Two-factor authentication may be the best way of keeping our online accounts safe, but even this system has vulnerabilities. In Germany, a known security flaw in a ...

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.

Hackers have exploited long-known vulnerabilities in the SS7 networking protocol to drain customer bank accounts, despite years of warnings about the security holes. Signaling System No.7 (SS7 ...

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