Pronounced "im-zee catcher," it logs the phone's International Mobile Subscriber Identity number (IMSI) and functions like a man-in-the-middle attack, relaying voice, text and data traffic between ...

MANILA, Philippines — A man selling an International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) catcher, an equipment used by scammers ...

Although hard to believe in the age of cheap IMSI-catchers, “subscriber location privacy” is supposed to be protected by mobile phone protocols. The Authentication and Key Agreement (AKA ...

The Philippine government has been informed of the charges against three Filipinos currently detained in China on espionage ...

The most common type is an IMSI catcher, essentially a fake mobile phone tower that logs the IMSI number, or international mobile subscriber identity, of every phone that connects to it.

WITH the midterm elections fast approaching, candidates are getting more creative in reaching voters—some even going as far as mimicking emergency alerts to push campaign messages. Scam Watch ...

None of the experts Aftenposten contacted support the Police Security Service, which rejected information that fake base stations (IMSI catchers) were active in Norway’s capital before Christmas last ...

Police seized 16 illegal text blaster devices and arrested a 28-year-old man in an entrapment operation in Paniqui, Tarlac.

Senator Grace Poe has weighed in on the use of Emergency Cell Broadcasting Systems (ECBS) for campaigning, and warned that such could imperil public safety. In a statement on Monday, Poe cited reports ...