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October 2, 2014 at 10:07 am

Listening mobile phones and their protection

Wireless technologies

What options exist for wiretapping cell phone conversations, how can one protect against this type of attack, and how can a subscriber determine that his phone may be being tapped? Due to the Lately a whole wave of espionage scandals, these issues are becoming relevant again. Journalists turned to the operators of the Ukrainian mobile communications with a request to explain how the subscriber should behave in such cases.

What was striking was that almost all the operators that journalists contacted were simply unable to provide answers to the questions posed. The only company that agreed to help were representatives of MTS Ukraine. The operator Life:) did not give an answer at all to the sent request, and Kyivstar replied that they are not experts in such matters, and that such questions should be addressed to special government services (read, Ministry of Internal Affairs, SBU, etc. ) The article below also used information about wiretapping of mobile phones obtained from public sources.

How operators protect their networks

When developing GSM technology, as well as at the stage of its implementation, all requirements from the controlling government were taken into account. authorities to the level of protection. It is because of these requirements that in many countries around the world the sale and purchase of special equipment, such as powerful encryptors, crypto equipment, scramblers, as well as very secure technologies for public communications, are prohibited. But mobile operators themselves ensure the protection of their radio channels using signal encryption methods. Encryption uses very complex algorithms. Which cryptographic algorithm will be used for encryption is selected at the stage when a connection is established between the base station and the subscriber himself. The degree of probability of a leak of subscriber information from the operator’s equipment, as MTS employees assured journalists, is practically zero. Why to zero, we asked - and all because of the complexity and control of access to the operator’s facilities and equipment.

How can you “listen” to mobile phones?

There are only two methods of wiretapping subscribers - the active method and the passive method. When passively listening to a subscriber, you need to use very expensive equipment and have specially trained workers. If you have money (read - a lot of money) on the “black market” you can purchase special complexes, using which you can listen to conversations of any subscriber within a radius of up to 500 meters. Ask why you need to have a lot of money? The answer is simple - the price of one such set starts from several hundred thousand euros. What such a kit looks like can be seen in next photo. There are many sites on the Internet where you can familiarize yourself with the description and operating principle of such kits and listening systems.

As the manufacturers of such listening systems convince, their systems can monitor GSM conversations in real time, because the operating principle of the equipment is based on access to the SIM card of the mobile subscriber, or directly to the database of the operator itself cellular communications. Although, if those listening to you do not have such access, they can listen to all your conversations with some delay. The amount of delay depends on the level of encryption of the communication channel that a particular operator uses. Similar systems it could also be mobile centers to ensure listening and tracking the movement of objects.

The second method of wiretapping is active interference on the air with the authentication process and control protocols. For this purpose, special mobile complexes are used. Such mobile systems, which, in fact, are a pair of specially modified phones and a laptop, despite their external simplicity and small size, are also an expensive pleasure - their price varies from a couple of tens of thousands to several hundred thousand US dollars. And again, only highly qualified specialists in the field of communications can work on such equipment.

The attack on the subscriber is carried out using to the following principle: since the complex is mobile and is located at a close distance to the subscriber - up to 500 meters - it “intercepts” signals to establish a connection and transmit data, replacing the operator’s base station. In fact, the complex itself becomes an “intermediary bridge” between the nearest base station and the subscriber himself.

After “capturing” the desired mobile subscriber in this way, this complex can actually perform any control function over the intercepted channel: for example, connect the person being listened to with any number necessary for those listening, lower the encryption algorithm or even disable this encryption for a specific communication session, etc. .d.

What such a complex looks like can be seen in the photo below.

As experts shared, it is impossible to determine 100% that the subscriber’s phone is being tapped at this very moment. But, you can get indirect evidence that may indicate that such a possibility exists. In the recent past, some mobile models (namely - push-button phones) had in their functionality a special symbol-icon in the form of a lock. If the lock was closed, then the signal is encrypted, and vice versa - if the lock is open... well, you understand everything yourself.

But in phones over the last 5-6 years there is no such function... It’s a pity. Although, for some smartphone models there are special applications that will signal the phone owner about the configuration of the settings used in the current communication session. One option is to notify the user about the mode in which his conversation is transmitted - using encryption algorithms or openly. Listed below are a few of these applications:

EAGLE Security

It is one of the most powerful applications for protecting your mobile phone from wiretapping. This program prevents any connections to false base stations. To determine the reliability of a station, a check of signatures and station identifiers is used. In addition, the program independently monitors and remembers the location of all base stations, and if it is detected that a base is moving around the city, or its signal disappears from time to time from its location - such a base is marked as false and suspicious and the application will notify the owner about this phone. Another one of useful functions programs - the ability to show which of the applications and programs installed on the phone have access to the video camera and microphone of your phone. There is also a function to disable (prohibit) access to any software you don’t need to the camera.

Darshak

This program differs from the previous one and its main function is to monitor any suspicious activity on the network, including using SMS, which may be sent without the permission of the phone owner. The application evaluates in real time how secure your network is, what encryption algorithm is being used at that moment, and much more.

Android IMSI-Catcher Detector

This application also helps protect your smartphone from any connections to pseudo-bases. The only disadvantage of this program is that you will not find it in Google Play and if you still want to install it, you will have to tinker with this procedure.

CatcherCatcher

The CatcherCatcher program, like its analogues above, is engaged in identifying false base stations that attackers (or special services?) use as intermediate “intermediary bridges” between the subscriber and the real base station.

And finally, experts also recommended using special applications to ensure the security of personal conversations and data, including encrypting your conversations. Similar analogues are the anonymous web browsers Orbot or Orweb, for example. There is also special programs, which encrypt your telephone conversations, photos, and many already use secure messengers.

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Are you a suspicious husband? Then this article is just for you. In it you will learn how to listen to your wife’s phone and find out her real location coordinates. There are several simple methods for this.

The article does not address the possibility of viewing incoming and outgoing calls while she sleeps. The beacons inserted into the device are obsolete.

Learn how to track your spouse's cell phone using modern and revolutionary surveillance techniques.

You suspect your beloved woman of dubious connections, then don’t hesitate. Follow her movements thanks to the app for personal computer. This method has the following disadvantages:

not everyone can find working version BY;
not everyone will be able to deal with it;
Almost all versions are not cheap.

The advantages include:

precise location data;
the ability to listen to a cell phone;
open access to file system and calls;
moral self-satisfaction.

Spy utilities are convenient, but not practical. It will be quite difficult to catch your wife cheating by listening to her cell phone.

Program installation

Didn't work with the first method? There are others available methods listening. For example, installing an application on your spouse’s phone.

The Internet is filled with products from many developers. You just need to choose a reliable partner.

This is the easiest way. There is nothing easier than installing a special program in mobile device. Its undeniable advantage is its ease of use.

Most main drawback- This ease of detection. You take a risk when you install an application of unknown origin. Your wife is immediately able to detect a “foreign body”. And, to spite you, walk around the city waiting for you to run after her.

The most effective way to listen

This is a way to listen to a communication medium over the Internet. The most acceptable method of wiretapping is interaction with special service. The user just needs to visit the site using the link below and follow further instructions. The program will do the rest.

This option is as convenient and effective as possible. The main thing is that no one will convict you. Of course, if you don't split yourself.

The most obvious way is official wiretapping by the state.

In many countries of the world telephone companies are obliged to provide access to telephone wiretapping lines for competent authorities. For example, in Russia in practice this is carried out technically through the SORM system technical means to ensure the functions of operational-search activities.

Each operator is required to install an integrated SORM module on its PBX.

If a telecom operator has not installed equipment on its PBX to wiretap the phones of all users, its license in Russia will be revoked. Similar programs total wiretapping operates in Kazakhstan, Ukraine, the USA, Great Britain (Interception Modernization Program, Tempora) and other countries.

The corruption of government officials and intelligence officers is well known to everyone. If they have access to the system in "god mode", then for the right price you can have it too. As in everyone state systems, in the Russian SORM there is a big mess and typical Russian carelessness. Most technical specialists actually have very low qualifications, which allows unauthorized connection to the system without the notice of the intelligence services themselves.

Telecom operators do not control when and which subscribers are listened to on SORM lines. The operator does not check in any way whether there is a court sanction to wiretap a particular user.

“You take a certain criminal case about the investigation of an organized criminal group, in which 10 numbers are listed. You need to listen to a person who has nothing to do with this investigation. You just get this number and say you have it operative information that this is the number of one of the leaders of the criminal group,” they say knowledgeable people from the website "Agentura.ru".

Thus, through SORM you can listen to anyone on “legal” grounds. This is such a secure connection.

2. Wiretapping through an operator

Cellular operators generally look at the call list and movement history of a mobile phone, which is registered in various base stations according to its physical location, without any problems. To obtain call records, like the intelligence services, the operator needs to connect to the SORM system.

For Russian law enforcement agencies, there is little point in installing Trojans, unless they need the ability to activate a smartphone’s microphone and record, even if the user is not talking on a mobile phone. In other cases, SORM does an excellent job of wiretapping. Therefore, Russian intelligence services are not very active in introducing Trojans. But for unofficial use it is a favorite hacking tool.

Wives spy on their husbands, businessmen study the activities of competitors. In Russia, Trojan software is widely used for wiretapping by private clients.

A Trojan is installed on a smartphone different ways: via fake software update, through email with a fake application, through a vulnerability in Android or in popular software like iTunes.

New vulnerabilities in programs are found literally every day, and then they are closed very slowly. For example, the FinFisher Trojan was installed through a vulnerability in iTunes, which Apple did not close from 2008 to 2011. Through this hole, it was possible to install any software on behalf of Apple on the victim’s computer.

It is possible that such a Trojan is already installed on your smartphone. Have you ever felt like your smartphone battery has been draining a little faster than expected lately?

6. Application update

Instead of installing a special spy trojan an attacker can act even more intelligently: choose an application that you yourself voluntarily install on your smartphone, after which you give him full authority to access phone calls, recording conversations and transferring data to a remote server.

For example it could be popular game, which is distributed through “left” directories mobile applications. At first glance, it’s an ordinary game, but with the function of wiretapping and recording conversations. Very comfortably. The user manually allows the program to access the Internet, where it sends files with recorded conversations.

Alternatively, malicious application functionality may be added as an update.

7. Fake base station

The fake base station has more strong signal than real BS. Due to this, it intercepts subscriber traffic and allows you to manipulate data on the phone. Known to be fake base stations widely used by law enforcement agencies abroad.

In the USA, a model of fake BS called StingRay is popular.

And not only law enforcement agencies use such devices. For example, merchants in China often use fake BS to mass mailing spam to mobile phones that are located within a radius of hundreds of meters around. In general, in China the production of “fake honeycombs” has been ramped up, so in local stores it is not a problem to find such a device, assembled literally on your knees.

8. Hacking a femtocell

Recently, some companies have been using femtocells - low-power miniature cellular stations that intercept traffic from mobile phones within range. Such a femtocell allows you to record calls from all company employees before redirecting the calls to the base station of cellular operators.

Accordingly, to wiretap a subscriber, you need to install your own femtocell or hack the operator’s original femtocell.

9. Mobile complex for remote wiretapping

IN in this case The radio antenna is installed close to the subscriber (operates at a distance of up to 500 meters). A directional antenna connected to the computer intercepts all phone signals, and when the work is completed, it is simply taken away.

Unlike a fake femtocell or Trojan, here the attacker does not have to worry about getting into the site and installing a femtocell, and then removing it (or removing the Trojan without leaving any traces of hacking).

The capabilities of modern PCs are enough to record a GSM signal on large quantities frequencies, and then crack the encryption using rainbow tables (here is a description of the technique from renowned specialist in this area by Karsten Nohl).

If you voluntarily carry a universal bug with you, you automatically collect an extensive dossier on yourself. The only question is who will need this dossier. But if he needs it, he can get it without much difficulty.

To avoid wiretapping of subscribers' mobile phones, existing operators cellular introduced network protection using GSM technologies. Such methods have been developed and implemented in accordance with the requirements of the competent state authorities.

Only existing method Radio channels are protected by the work of complex algorithms that provide data encryption, making wiretapping of a mobile phone impossible. These processes are quite simple - subscribers connect to databases, complex algorithms are activated, which reduces the leakage of personal information to absolute zero.

The existing technology for wiretapping a mobile phone comes down to active and passive methods. Passive technologies include expensive installations, the prices of which exceed tens and thousands of euros. The manufacturing companies of these units guarantee that all personal data of subscribers cellular networks are currently tracked thanks to unlimited access to the service provider's database and directly to the SIM card.

Due to the complexity of the process of spying on subscribers and wiretapping phones at a distance of approximately 500 m, it is specially monitored by qualified trained employees.

Active wiretapping technology involves intercepting signals using a special mobile complex - a pair of advanced phones and a laptop. The cost of such complexes is also far from cheap - thousands of dollars. However, information on how phones are tapped in this way is only available to highly qualified employees in the field of technology and communications.

In addition, today it is possible to wiretap a mobile phone at a household level, for non-professional hackers. It is carried out by uploading malware onto the gadget. This kind of special programs are capable of monitoring and managing not only the encryption of data on the phone, but also all the data on the device!

Today, no one can determine the signs of wiretapping of a mobile phone or give a 100% guarantee that everything that happens to the phone relates to wiretapping, but everyone can get some confirmation of the likelihood of such processes, and this is not the slightest difficulty. A simple and reliable method for detecting wiretapping about ten years ago was ordinary push-button telephones. Opponents of technological progress can still observe this now - a closed or open lock appears on the displays of old phones, which displays the presence or absence of data encryption.

For users modern smartphones, alas, such a visual check is not available, but we can, based on a number of certain signs that cannot be ignored, find out that a mobile phone is being tapped.

For example, a person does not use own smartphone certain time, but the device’s battery still heats up. This important indicator How to find out if your phone is tapped.

If your smartphone has recently begun to discharge too quickly, it’s worth paying attention to, maybe it’s wiretapping! Ignore this fact This is possible in cases where you like to play games on your phone or are a music lover and constantly listen to music from your device and watch videos. It is logical that each battery will begin to discharge quickly. Also, it is worth considering the age of the smartphone - a new device that is up to 1 year old cannot “kill” the battery for no reason. But older models will reduce their charge over time.

Does your smartphone turn off for a long time or with a certain delay? Can't you turn it off at all? This may indicate espionage! However, please note that similar types of device malfunctions may be caused by incorrect firmware or infection with malware.

In cases where you notice strange activity on your device - its backlight turns on in standby mode, installation takes place unknown applications or programs, the smartphone reboots on its own - pay attention to this! Most likely, they are spying on you and controlling your smartphone using third-party software.

How else regular user gadget can check the phone for wiretapping? Interference, clicks, background noise may indicate incorrect or faulty operation of the device, errors in an old battery, infection of the device with viruses, or... wiretapping!

Make sure that there is interference in your personal life by paying attention to the simultaneous coincidence of several of these points.

Ways to protect your phone from wiretapping

Lock your smartphone with a password, keep it with you and don’t give it to strangers (or maybe even acquaintances!) - this is the first and effective way protect yourself from espionage. And if you are not going to use the device, turn it off by removing the battery.

Today, less radical options for protecting against mobile phone eavesdropping are also available. Manufacturers-developers, responding to frequently asked question“How to protect your phone from wiretapping?”, they suggest not to fall into despair and install specially designed programs that can report wiretapping, ensuring peace of mind for users.

These applications and programs protect smartphones from malicious software, which record telephone conversations of subscribers, duplicate SMS correspondence, use the camera during a conversation and even in the device’s standby mode.

How do you know if your phone is being tapped? “Security” applications monitor the base stations with which the smartphone connects, checking their signatures and geolocation data. When dubious bases move from their location or disappear from the radar altogether, programs perceive them as suspicious and send a corresponding notification to the user. However, manufacturers of such applications warn users that these functions do not guarantee protection of the phone from wiretapping, and recommend refraining from telephone conversations and other methods of data exchange when connecting to dubious base stations.

In highly specialized online stores you can legally purchase affordable and effective ways eavesdropping protections such as:

anti-bugs – detector devices that provide a sufficient level of human protection from wireless cameras, miniature radio transmitters, radio microphones and other things. Work with wide range frequencies, endowed high sensitivity and monitor the surrounding radio air;
detectors hidden cameras– detect cameras on long distances regardless of the mode (on or off) and communication channels (wired and wireless) based on lens flares;
Field indicators detect data collection devices. Available in: portable, room, telephone and car.

Wiretapping a mobile phone using Reptilicus

Reptilicus is one such application that archives data. Thanks to this feature, everyone is able to use the phone as a scout. The program for listening to mobile phones has proven itself to be excellent.

There are a lot of reasons to install Reptilicus to listen to a mobile phone:

parental control over your child and his social circle;
establishment trust relationships with half;
monitoring the work of subordinates to prevent gossip, conspiracies and information leaks;
comfortable round-the-clock care for sick or elderly people;

And this is not an exhaustive list. Everyone has their own reasons and the question is “how to listen to a phone?”, and there is only one solution - install the Reptiilkus program on the device.

The program is installed on a person’s smartphone, telephone conversations, SMS correspondence, the geolocation data of which is duplicated to the email address specified in the program settings.

Reptilicus has nothing to do with spyware! This is not a prank for friends who intercept messages on Viber, WhatsApp, VKontakte, Facebook, Odnoklassniki and others in social networks. The developers position the application as a friendly program that works exclusively in hidden mode, assistant in life.

The creators of Reptilicus strongly remind you of the prohibition of using the program for illegal purposes (spying on a person, obtaining information illegally, using software for eavesdropping, etc.), as well as the mandatory consent of a person if it is necessary to monitor him. After all, the listed actions and actions imply the presence of responsibility on the part of the person who commits them.

Advantages of the Reptilicus service over other software for listening to mobile phones

A comparison of existing phone wiretapping software technologies on the market shows that Reptilicus provides best service. This is not only a program for wiretapping telephones, it is a logger program for personal data, providing accurate geolocation data of people’s locations, the content and details of telephone conversations, printouts of correspondence, parental control and much more.

The application provides a sufficient level of protection for device data in case of loss or deletion, restores lost data, ensures operation in remote mode- by using command line via SMS or email.

In cases of emergency determination of the location of phones/subscribers, the program monitors all actions that are performed on the phone, helps to find the device and saves the data stored on it. If the device has been stolen, the program will track exact coordinates its location, and, if necessary, will transfer this data to law enforcement agencies. All these functions are not available in other listening programs.