The laissez faire attitude most tech companies, non tech companies, and people, have towards cyber security is a ticking fucking time bomb.
This isn’t 1990. Everything relies on technology. I can’t help but feel that we are headed towards a clusterfuck the likes of which has never been seen before.
This protective intelligence investigation led to the discovery of more than 300 co-located SIM servers and 100,000 SIM cards across multiple sites.
They found a phone farm.
It’s pretty unlikely they were using actual cellphones for this setup.
They have images in the link. They sure don’t look like actual phones. I hope more information comes out about what was being used and where they were sourced. Were they devices that have a legitimate use as well or something more custom for nefarious purposes? They don’t look like they take a lot of room, so this might not be the last time we hear of something using this or similar equipment. Doesn’t seem like it would be hard to put these all over the world.
Why? Not disagreeing, just curious if there’s something to base this off of. It’s a whole lot of phones, but old phones are still perfectly functional and cheap as dirt in bulk. You can get 100-phone management racks off alibaba for not too much, so while this setup would be damned large, it’s for sure not impossible to set up for a dedicated enough actor.
And that said it’d be a pain in the ass. Could you replicate the functionality with a broadband radio and a server, maybe?
There are images in the link; they’re not actual phones.
While forensic examination of these devices is ongoing, early analysis indicates cellular communications between nation-state threat actors and individuals that are known to federal law enforcement.
I have read elsewhere that this is likely an older service, used for a long time, which was used in domestic crime. It was tracked down by the secret service because it was providing help in forgery of fake currency.
It makes sense why the secret service, which deals in counterfeiting, was involved.
But it was spun by the White House for other reasons
Seems like swatting attacks would be better served against the Geriatric Old Party. Send some to the SCRotUS
Russia? Russia.
