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Bahamas-based cyber security experts yesterday argued that the Bahamas Telecommunications Company s (BTC) outdated network equipment left it vulnerable to penetration by malign actors.
Scott MacKenzie, Cloud Carib s managing director, told Tribune Business that it was easy to access BTC’s systems because the carrier, and possibly its immediate parent, Cable and Wireless Communications (CWC), were using legacy networks and equipment that are at least 20 years out-of-date.
Speaking following allegations that Chinese state-owned entities had used BTC s network to spy on US citizens, Mr MacKenzie said: “The issue relating to the SS7 network that China allegedly hacked into is that SS7 is a very, very old protocol that was primarily used in PSTN (Public switched telephone network).
‘Beijing using Flow to spy on US’
Article by December 17, 2020
The island’s leading telecommunications provider has been accused of helping China spy on Americans through the use of its mobile phone networks.
Mobile network security expert Gary Miller has told
The Guardian that Cable and Wireless Communications (Flow) in Barbados and the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC), allowed China to use its networks to “target, track and intercept phone communications of US phone subscribers”.
In response to requests from
Barbados TODAY for confirmation or denial of the report, Liberty Latin America, the parent company of C&W, did not give a definitive response.
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China Engaged in ‘Mass Surveillance’ on Americans’ Mobile Phones, Report Finds
The Chinese regime exploited vulnerabilities in the global mobile telecommunications network to conduct “mass surveillance” on Americans, according to a recent report by a cyber research firm.
By analyzing signals data, the report by Washington-based Exigent Media found that Beijing, working through state-owned telecom operator China Unicom, was the leading source of attacks against U.S. mobile users over 3G and 4G networks in 2018.
The regime exploited well-known network vulnerabilities, which allowed it to track, monitor, disrupt, and intercept communications of U.S. phone subscribers while they traveled abroad. The vulnerabilities are centered around the legacy mobile SS7 signaling system, described in the report as “a patchwork system enabling network operators around the world to communicate with each other for international roaming services.”