Inside the Telecom Attack Surface: SS7, BGP Hijacking, and the Technical Reality of Nation-State Intrusions

Nation-state operators rarely need a zero-day to get inside a carrier. Much of the telecom stack still runs protocols designed when every participant was a known, trusted operator. SS7 assumes that the node sending a request has a legitimate reason to send it.   BGP assumes a network announcing a route actually owns it. Attackers who understand... Weiterlesen