Rogue Phony Cell Towers Intercepting Your Mobile Phone Calls

[Shlomo]

Rogue Phony Cell Towers Intercepting Your Mobile Phone Calls

Business Insider reported the towers “appear to be connecting to nearby phones, bypassing their encryption, and either tapping calls or reading texts.”

"... rogue cell phone towers known as "interceptors" have been discovered across America, and they don't belong to communications companies, the NSA or the U.S. military. They reportedly snoop on your private phone calls by intercepting cell phone signals, then relaying them to other towers."

“Interceptor use in the U.S. is much higher than people had anticipated,” Goldsmith says.  “One of our customers took a road trip from Florida to North Carolina and he found 8 different interceptors on that trip.  We even found one at South Point Casino in Las Vegas.”

Who is running these interceptors and what are they doing with the calls?  Goldsmith says we can’t be sure, but he has his suspicions.

http://www.popsci.com/article/technology/mysterious-phony-cell-towers-could-be-intercepting-your-calls
http://www.forbes.com/sites/davelewis/2014/09/03/rogue-cell-towers-could-be-intercepting-your-call/
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2600348/mobile-security/are-your-calls-being-intercepted-17-fake-cell-towers-discovered-in-one-month.html
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/mysterious-fake-cellphone-towers-intercepting-162645809.html
http://www.wired.com/2014/09/cryptophone-firewall-identifies-rogue-cell-towers/

[Aces High]

I agree with this.  And people should not talk very private business on the cell phone, if they can avoid it.

[Shlomo]

I just posted it because it's very strange and they are finding these things all over the country - especially near military bases. And it's not just a conspiracy theory. It's being reported by all the major news outlets.

Is it the government? Hackers? Foreign governments spying? Who knows... but it is very unsettling. And each of these towers is extremely expensive.

You can buy a cell phone that can detect them but it costs over $3,000.

You know me. I'm always looking at security news. Just thought I'd share.

[Aces High]

I just posted it because it's very strange and they are finding these things all over the country - especially near military bases. And it's not just a conspiracy theory. It's being reported by all the major news outlets.

Is it the government? Hackers? Foreign governments spying? Who knows... but it is very unsettling. And each of these towers is extremely expensive.

You can buy a cell phone that can detect them but it costs over $3,000.

You know me. I'm always looking at security news. Just thought I'd share.

It's important to be aware of this.

[muman613]

Hackers are utilizing 'law-enforcement' tools in order to hack our accounts.

I would not be surprised if the phone system has been hacked by foreign or domestic terrorists using technology which was developed for law enforcement.

The recent 'nude photos' scandal brought this to attention:

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-09/03/eppb-icloud-tool

As nude celebrity photos spilled onto the web over the weekend, blame for the scandal has rotated from the scumbag hackers who stole the images to a researcher who released a tool used to crack victims' iCloud passwords to Apple, whose security flaws may have made that cracking exploit possible in the first place. But one step in the hackers' sext-stealing playbook has been ignored -- a piece of software designed to let cops and spies siphon data from iPhones, but is instead being used by pervy criminals themselves.

On the web forum Anon-IB, one of the most popular anonymous image boards for posting stolen nude selfies, hackers openly discuss using a piece of software called EPPB or Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker to download their victims' data from iCloud backups. That software is sold by Moscow-based forensics firm Elcomsoft and intended for government agency customers. In combination with iCloud credentials obtained with iBrute, the password-cracking software for iCloud released on Github over the weekend, EPPB lets anyone impersonate a victim's iPhone and download its full backup rather than the more limited data accessible on iCloud.com. And as of Tuesday, it was still being used to steal revealing photos and post them on Anon-IB's forum.
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[angryChineseKahanist]

I saw that.
obviouslly enemy agents.