Someone could be secretly spying on mobile communications at White House and Pentagon - but who?
US government officials are concerned that someone is tracking all the mobile phones in the Washington DC area and could be spying on the communications of senators, president Donald Trump, foreign diplomats and many other branches of the government.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is currently investigating after receiving information from a defence contractor that highly suspicious behaviour is coming from multiple mobile base stations belonging to a major US mobile operator in the region. A huge amount of location data is being siphoned off by a third party that might be controlling multiple mobile base stations in Washington DC.
"The attack was first seen in DC but was later seen on other sensors across the USA," a source told US political news site Washington Free Beacon on condition of anonymity. "A sensor located close to the White House and another over near the Pentagon have been part of those that have seen this tracking."
The information was gathered by the ESD Overwatch programme, which is run by ESD America, a Las Vegas-based defence and law enforcement technology firm that routinely supplies technology to the US Department of Homeland Security.
The firm operates a real-time detection system called ESD Overwatch that basically detects fake or illegal mobile base stations (cell towers in the US), which are telecoms equipment known as IMSI catchers commonly used by cybercriminals to intercept communications from mobile phones.
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