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

Reported by Cyble (Ashish Khaitan)

Summary by Cyber Security News25 Sep 2026, 10:50 CEST

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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.

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