Israeli telecommunications infrastructure was used to track citizens in more than 10 countries over the past three years, according to a report published by the digital research group Citizen Lab and reviewed by Haaretz.
The findings, detailed in a May 2026 investigation, expose two separate tracking operations that exploited legacy and modern mobile network protocols to locate devices without user consent. One operation used Israeli carriers 019Mobile and Partner Communications, while another was linked to Swiss firm Fink Telecom Services. The tracking methods included abuse of the SS7 signaling protocol, exploitation of the Diameter protocol used in 4G and 5G networks, and a SIM-card technique known as SIMjacking.
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