Inside Iran's high-stakes cyber op to hunt down US troops in the Middle East

The reported surveillance campaign comes as fighting between Iran and the US continues to intensifyIran allegedly exploited weaknesses in decades-old telecommunications technology to track the mobile phones of US military personnel across the Middle East during its conflict with the United States and Israel, according to a report by The New York Times.The findings, based on data from the Mobile Surveillance Monitor research initiative and first reported by the Financial Times, suggest Iran launched a coordinated cyber campaign that used vulnerabilities in global phone networks to identify the locations of US service members and contractors stationed across the region. Cybersecurity experts say the operation demonstrates a significant evolution in Tehran's cyberwarfare capabilities at a tim