How Iran Used Data Roaming, Ad Tech To Track US Military Personnel In Gulf

Iranian hackers have reportedly exploited the vulnerability of the outdated Middle Eastern telecom infrastructure to locate the phones of US personnel and contractors in the region. The Mobile Surveillance Monitor, a research initiative that studies mobile espionage, has detected that Middle Eastern telecom networks have been receiving a wave of requests seeking to pin down the locations of specific phones roaming outside their home networks. Gary Miller, a cybersecurity researcher who founded the nonprofit, told The New York Times that the data was indicative of a "coordinated attack campaign."The malicious cyberattacks came in the build-up to the US-Israeli war against Iran that started late February and continued in the early days of the conflict, when Tehran retaliated with missile and drone strikes against US military installations around the region, according to a Financial Times report. Autonomy of Iranian AttacksTens of thousands of US military personnel are stationed across the Middle East, including…