HOW FIRST WAP TRACKS PHONES AROUND THE WORLD

Summary from the TLDR Dev newsletter

An investigation uncovered a massive archive of data showing the global phone-tracking activities of a company called First Wap. First Wap's tool, Altamides, exploits vulnerabilities in the SS7 telecom protocol to track phone locations worldwide without detection on the device itself. The data showed that First Wap tracked thousands of individuals, including journalists, dissidents, and even individuals like Anne Wojcicki, using this method.