Operation Soft Cell campaign targets cellular telecom providers, points to China’s APT10

By Teri Robinson for SC Media
Tuesday, June 25, 2019

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A threat actor using tools and techniques associated with APT10, the Chinese hacking group, and aimed at global cellular telecommunications providers completely took over at least one provider’s network in its efforts to obtain data on very specific, high-value targets, according to a report from the Cybereason Nocturnus team.

Calling telcos “an attractive low-hanging fruit for cybercriminal” for the volume of valuable data they accrue from customers, Ilia Kolochenko, founder and CEO of ImmuniWeb, said “the report and its findings are unfortunately not surprising,” and predicted “a thorough investigation will likely detect a sophisticated and undetected intrusion into any virtually any large telco in the world.” Telco clients have little recourse but to “presume that all communication channels are insecure and encrypt all their traffic,” Kolochenko said. “This will however not save from such things as unwarranted tracking by a breached telco.” Read Full Article