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Regin Malware, Nation-state ownage of GSM networkshttps://securelist.com/files/2014/11/Kaspersky_Lab...

The ability of this group to penetrate and monitor GSM networks is perhaps the most unusual and interesting aspect of these operations. In today’s world, we have become too dependent on cellphone networks that rely on ancient communication protocols with little or no security available for the end user. Although all GSM networks have mechanisms embedded that allow entities such as law enforcement to track suspects, there are other parties which can gain this ability and then abuse it to launch other types of attacks against mobile users.Please consider the environment before printing this message, 50% of the above is useless!