Increasingly, cellular carriers and service providers are using IP networks to transport and route Signaling System 7 (SS7) traffic. The SS7 protocol boasts a mechanism for offloading the traditional ...

At least 20 crypto executives and customers of an Israeli telecommunications company were targeted in a sophisticated SS7 attack last month. Hackers compromised Telegram messenger and email accounts ...

A mobile security expert has accused China of exploiting cellphone networks in the Caribbean to conduct "mass surveillance" on Americans. Gary Miller, a former vice president of network security at ...

The problem is that SS7 was designed as an out of band protocol (or "signalling standard" hence "SS7") for a physically isolated, wired network that only a privileged few had access to. You had to be ...