{"id":3321,"date":"2021-10-19T15:46:48","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T13:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/19\/at-least-13-phone-firms-hit-by-suspected-chinese-hackers-since-2019-say-experts\/"},"modified":"2021-10-19T15:46:48","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T13:46:48","slug":"at-least-13-phone-firms-hit-by-suspected-chinese-hackers-since-2019-say-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/19\/at-least-13-phone-firms-hit-by-suspected-chinese-hackers-since-2019-say-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 13 phone firms hit by suspected Chinese hackers since 2019, say experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LightBasin hackers were able to obtain subscriber information and call metadata, says CrowdStrike<\/p>\n<p>At least 13 phone companies around the world have been compromised since 2019 by sophisticated hackers who are believed to come from China, a cybersecurity expert group has said.<\/p>\n<p>The roaming hackers \u2013 known as LightBasin \u2013 were able to \u201csearch and find\u201d individual mobile phones and \u201ctarget accordingly\u201d, according to CrowdStrike, a group regularly cited by western intelligence.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/oct\/19\/phone-firms-hit-by-suspected-chinese-hackers-lightbasin-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/29f545929ba8b39c0322b40ae646f26c434717b5\/0_85_6000_3600\/master\/6000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=76707efa77561a6ece5cc2f4f5db75b6\" title=\"At least 13 phone firms hit by suspected Chinese hackers since 2019, say experts\" \/>LightBasin hackers were able to obtain subscriber information and call metadata, says CrowdStrike<br \/>\nAt least 13 phone companies around the world have been compromised since 2019 by sophisticated hackers who are believed to come from China, a cybersecurity expert group has said.<br \/>\nThe roaming hackers \u2013 known as LightBasin \u2013 were able to \u201csearch and find\u201d individual mobile phones and \u201ctarget accordingly\u201d, according to CrowdStrike, a group regularly cited by western intelligence. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LightBasin hackers were able to obtain subscriber information and call metadata, says CrowdStrike At least 13 phone companies around the world have been compromised since 2019 by sophisticated hackers who are believed to come from China, a cybersecurity expert group has said. The roaming hackers \u2013 known as LightBasin \u2013 were able to \u201csearch and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/19\/at-least-13-phone-firms-hit-by-suspected-chinese-hackers-since-2019-say-experts\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">At least 13 phone firms hit by suspected Chinese hackers since 2019, say experts<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3321"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}