telecom

The Invisible Spy in Your Pocket: Why Carrier Privacy Just Failed

John Z Black May 1, 2026

Privacy & Digital Rights #telecom #SS7 #Citizen-Lab #surveillance #location-tracking

Think your phone is secure because it's in your pocket? Citizen Lab caught 'Phantom Operators' tracking users globally through cell signaling gaps that no app can fix.

31.4 Terabits in 35 Seconds: Cloudflare's New Threat Report Shows Attacks Have Gone Industrial

John Z Black Mar 29, 2026

Threat Intelligence #cloudflare #ddos #botnet #threat-report #aisuru #kimwolf #session-tokens #mfa-bypass #telecom #doj

Cloudflare's 2026 threat report documents a record-breaking 31.4 Tbps DDoS attack and reveals that 94% of bot-driven login attempts now bypass MFA by stealing session tokens instead of passwords.

China's BPFDoor Got an Upgrade. Passive Defenses Still Can't See It.

John Z Black Mar 28, 2026

Threat Intelligence #bpfdoor #china #red-menshen #telecom #apt #nation-state #threat-hunting #backdoor

Red Menshen's upgraded BPFDoor backdoor now hides even better inside telecom backbone networks, and the only way to find it is active threat hunting that most carriers aren't doing.

China Is Running Three Cyber Operations Against the West Simultaneously. Here's What They Look Like.

John Z Black Mar 27, 2026

Threat Intelligence #china #nation-state #bpfdoor #telecom #scam-compounds #xinbi

BPFDoor sleeping inside telecom networks, US officials blaming Beijing for enabling billion-dollar fraud, and a $20B Telegram black market just sanctioned by the UK. Three fronts, one picture.

After the 'Worst Telecom Hack in History,' Washington Is Already Moving On

John Z Black Mar 13, 2026

Policy & Governance #salt-typhoon #telecom #section-702 #nsa #cyber-policy #china #surveillance

Salt Typhoon was called the most significant cyberattack on US telecom infrastructure ever. Policy reform momentum is stalling. Congress is more interested in restricting FBI surveillance than fixing the infrastructure that got hacked.