DeepSec 2024 Press Release: Industrial Espionage – New old Attacks through Lawful Interception Interfaces
Lawful interception backdoors are exploited by nation states for espionage. The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) passed in 1994 forced telecoms providers and suppliers to equip all relevant components with backdoors that allow the recording of transported metadata and data. For over 30 years, information security experts have warned against the misuse of these accesses. The US-American telecommunication companies AT&T and Verizon have recently been the victims of an attack. The trail leads to China. Because of the legal abolition of security in networked systems, the attack comes as no surprise. The DeepSec conference therefore repeats its annual warning against deliberate weakening of information security. Fear of digitalisation CALEA began because the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was afraid of the failure of the interception technology of the time because of the