Spies want your traffic. Fraudsters want your subscribers.
Telecom providers handle large volumes of data, and 5G keeps widening what's exposed. Cypho watches your internet-facing infrastructure, the channels where attacks and fraud get planned, and the fake sites and apps aimed at your customers.
One compromised node can reach the whole network.
DDoS attacks on telecom networks increasingly mix volumetric floods with application-layer and protocol exploits. The outage can be cover for stealing customer data, installing ransomware or getting into core network elements, and ransomware can spread from one infected node across connected systems.
Fraud runs alongside. Criminals abuse VoIP systems, carry out SIM swaps and exploit mobile network protocols to steal identities and reroute communications. Staff, partners and customers get phished through cloned websites and spoofed domains, often as the first step of a larger intrusion.
Then there are the patient ones. Nation-state groups look for long-term access to intercept communications, and their attacks are built to slip past traditional defenses.
What we watch for carriers and their customers.
B / Attack Surface Management
Internet-facing infrastructure
Subdomains, IPs, open ports, certificates and known vulnerabilities across your external footprint, checked continuously. Uptime monitoring flags outages as they happen.
A / Threat Intelligence
APT and ransomware groups
Profiles of nation-state and ransomware groups that target telecom providers, with their techniques, infrastructure and linked CVEs.
A / Threat Intelligence
Fraud chatter
Posts in Telegram channels, forums and invite-only marketplaces that mention your company, including SIM swap and VoIP fraud offers.
C / Brand Protection
Phishing domains and cloned sites
Lookalike domains and copies of your customer portal, ranked by similarity so the likeliest phishing sites come first.
C / Brand Protection
Rogue apps and fake support accounts
Unofficial copies of your mobile apps in app stores, and social accounts that pose as your support team.
C / Brand Protection
Leaked logins
Employee and customer credentials in stealer logs, breach dumps and combo lists.
Earlier in the attack chain, with less noise.
- Early visibility
- Threats surface early in the attack chain, while there's still time to prevent disruption.
- Models that keep learning
- Machine learning models add context to findings, and we refine detection rules continuously.
- Alerts and reports
- Dashboards and instant alerts for analysts, and reports written for executive decisions.
What telecom security teams ask us.
Which sources do you monitor?
Underground forums, Telegram and other messaging channels, paste sites, stealer logs, public code repositories, file-sharing services, app stores, social networks, news and search engines. On your own infrastructure we also watch DNS and certificate records.
Can we pull the data into our own tools?
Yes. Threat data exports as JSON or CSV or over TAXII, and you can build custom feeds by threat type, update rate or source.
How do you keep false positives down?
Models trained on cybercrime data score each candidate, and an analyst reviews it before it becomes an issue. If you disagree with a finding, comment on it and we'll take another look.
Further reading.
From the research team
Other industries.
- Financial servicesFinancial institutions get targeted because of the data they handle.
- GovernmentGovernment bodies hold citizen records, run services people rely on, and draw attention from ransomware gangs and state-sponsored groups.
- Retail and eCommerceSkimmers go after the payment page and credential stuffers go after customer accounts.
- Oil, gas and energyOil and gas companies run SCADA networks and control systems that now connect back to IT, and ransomware groups have noticed.
- HealthcareHospitals, clinics and private practices hold sensitive records and run services patients can't go without.
Unknown threats are unstoppable. Until we expose them.
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