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gabrielgeiger.bsky.social
First Wap’s flagship product is called Altamides, it can track any phone anywhere in the world without leaving a trace - at an enormous scale. The dataset I found contained 1.5 million rows of tracking data from Altamides, including phone numbers, dates and real locations.
October 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
freedomeveryone.bsky.social
去年の内容だが未だ色褪せない。携帯電話から居場所を特定する市民監視ツール「Ａｌｔａｍｉｄｅｓ」に関する取材記事、これこそジャーナリズムだ。
www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...
September 19, 2026 at 3:42 PM
markfollman.bsky.social
“Altamides leaves no trace on the phones it targets, unlike spyware such as Pegasus. Nor does it require a target to click on a malicious link or show any of the telltale signs (such as overheating or a short battery life) of remote monitoring.”
markfollman.bsky.social Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · Oct 14
Today, with more than a dozen global media partners, we’re exposing a surveillance firm whose untraceable phone-tracking tech has been used around the world to target politicians, journalists, and executives—and maybe even you. Check out this extraordinary investigative reporting. ow.ly/2LUF50Xb7KE
The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you
We uncovered a massive data trove. It revealed the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.
ow.ly
October 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
gigazine.net
世界中のあらゆる人物の居場所を特定できる高度な電話追跡ソフトウェア「Altamides」の実態が潜入取材で明らかに
https://gigazine.net/news/20251015-phone-tracking-software-altamides-surveillance/
世界中のあらゆる人物の居場所を特定できる高度な電話追跡ソフトウェア「Altamides」の実態が潜入取材で明らかに
世界中で元首相や有力政治家、Netflixのプロデューサー、ノーベル平和賞候補、ジャーナリスト、シリコンバレーの大物などを追跡していた電話追跡ソフトウェア「Altamides」の知られざる実態について、非営利の報道団体であるLighthouse Reportsが綿密な調査と潜入取材で明らかにしました。
gigazine.net
October 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
motherjones.com
And don't miss the gripping mini-doc, featuring undercover footage captured by @lighthousereports.com: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfWy...
This Secret Tech Tracked World Leaders, a Vatican Enemy, and Maybe You
► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/firstwap-altamides-phone-tracking-surveillance-secrets-assad-erik-prince-jared-leto-anne-wojcicki/ Operating from their…
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October 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
clarajeffery.bsky.social
5/ www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The targets included Blackwater founder Erik Prince (who declined to comment), executives from military contracting company Raytheon, employees of telecom and cybersecurity firms, and a foreign defense attaché based in Washington, DC. Altamides pinpointed the location of Google engineers as they traveled across Northern California, and it tracked Anne Wojcicki, founder of DNA testing startup 23andMe who was then married to Google’s Sergey Brin, more than 1,000 times as she moved across Silicon Valley and San Francisco. (Google declined to comment, while Wojcicki told us she had no knowledge of these efforts to track her.) Award-winning journalist and former CIA lawyer Adam Ciralsky’s phone was targeted as he investigated the arms industry for Vanity Fair. A phone number that public records link to Hollywood star Jared Leto was targeted a month before he began filming Dallas Buyers Club.
October 14, 2025 at 4:21 PM
tinyklaus.com
Why am I not surprised.

“The First Wap archive shows that Altamides routed hundreds of thousands of location-tracking queries through Telecom Liechtenstein.”

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you
Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.
www.motherjones.com
October 14, 2025 at 11:05 PM
frederikobermaier.com
🇨🇭Zehntausende Handys wurden weltweit illegal überwacht – auch in der Schweiz.

Die #SurveillanceSecrets -Recherchen enthüllen, wie Politiker und Prominente verfolgt wurden. Eine Undercover-Recherche zeigt, wie die Verantwortlichen Sanktionen umgehen wollen. www.tagesanzeiger.ch/altamides-so...
«Sehr gefährlich»: Zehntausende Handys weltweit überwacht – auch in der Schweiz
Mit der Technologie einer bisher unbekannten Firma wurden grossem Stil illegal Mobiltelefone geortet und verfolgt, um Regimekritiker und Journalistinnen zu orten.
www.tagesanzeiger.ch
October 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
caffeineislife.bsky.social
Ya, the combination of ICE getting a contract to use Paragon's Graphite, along with the purchase of NSO by US investors, I had the same presumption about Pegasus getting picked up. There's also tracking tools such as Altamides, which i'd be really shocked if they weren't already using.
Surveillance Secrets
Trove of surveillance data challenges what we thought we knew about location tracking tools, who they target and how far they have spread
www.lighthousereports.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:23 AM
clarajeffery.bsky.social
4/ www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Last year the investigative newsroom Lighthouse Reports obtained a secret archive, containing more than a million instances where Altamides was used to trace cell phones all over the world. This data trove, the majority of which spans 2007 to 2014, is one of the largest disclosures to date of the inner workings of the vast surveillance industry. It does not just list the phone numbers of people who were monitored; it offers, in many cases, precise maps of their movements, showing where they went and when. Over months of research, Lighthouse, Germany’s Paper Trail Media, Mother Jones, Reveal, and an international consortium of partners dug into these logs to understand who was being spied on and why. We identified surveillance targets in 100 countries and spoke to dozens of them. We obtained confidential documents and communications outlining how Altamides—an acronym for “Advanced Location Tracking and Mobile Information and Deception System”—was marketed and deployed. We also interviewed industry insiders and former employees of the company about its operations and clientele.
October 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
timmi-allen.bsky.social
Was ist Altamides, mit dem sich weltweit Handys orten lassen und wer steckt dahinter?
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papertrailmedia.de paper trail media @papertrailmedia.de · Oct 14
🚨 NEU: “Wir können dafür ins Gefängnis kommen”– dieser Satz steht im Zentrum unserer neuen Recherche. 🚨
Es wird verrückt: Strafbare Sanktionsumgehung, ein Undercover-Einsatz, ein überwachter Vatikan-Reporter, prominente Opfer & Red Bull. Willkommen zu #SurveillanceSecrets
October 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
clarajeffery.bsky.social
6/ www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Elsewhere in the world, the First Wap archive shows how the company’s technology was used by repressive regimes, as well as by corporate investigators. It has even been utilized for personally motivated invasions of privacy. The onetime prime minister of Qatar, the ousted first lady of Syria Asma Al-Assad, high-profile international lawyers, music stars, and executives all came into Altamides’ crosshairs. But we also found hundreds of people with no public profile swept up in the dragnet: a softball coach in Hawaii, a restaurateur in Connecticut, an event planner based in Chicago.
October 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
zelbel.bsky.social
no, it's a product called Altamides from a company called First Wap. It's being used to track people in the U.S. illegally.
October 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
lighthousereports.com
In Norway, NRK’s @cbjoerke.bsky.social shows how Altamides zeroed in on a top telecom executive
NRK avslører: Tidligere Telenor-topp blant tusenvis utsatt for sporing
Mobilen hans var skrudd på. Det var alt som skulle til for å finne ut hvor Telenor-topp Sigve Brekkes telefon befant seg.
www.nrk.no
October 15, 2025 at 8:23 AM
lighthousereports.com
The list goes on. KRIK’s Bojana Jovanovic identified Serbian targets working in the energy industry
Međunarodno istraživanje „Tajne nadzora”: špijunskim softverom „Altamides” praćeni srpski biznismeni
Međunarodno novinarsko istraživanje „Tajne nadzora” predvođeno medijima Ligthouse Reports i Paper Trail Media, u kojem je učestvovao i KRIK, otkriva kako je softver „Altamides” kompanije „First Wap” i...
www.krik.rs
October 16, 2025 at 9:34 AM
clarajeffery.bsky.social
7/ A small sampling of notable people who were tracked using Alatmides/FirstWAP tech. Why and by whom...unclear. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Who Was Tracked Altamides targeted a phone linked to actor Jared Leto four times in 2012. Five tracking attempts were made on a phone associated with Asma al-Assad, the ousted first lady of Syria, in 2013. Attempts were also made to track the phone of her sister-in-law. In 2009, 23andMe founder Anne Wojcicki was tracked more than 1,o00 times. In 2013, 18 attempts were made to track a phone linked to Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, the former prime minister of Qatar.
October 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM
papertrailmedia.de
➡️ First Wap, eine Überwachungsfirma unter deutscher Führung, vermarktet ein System namens Altamides, mit dem sich weltweit Handys orten lassen. Ein Datenfund aus dem DeepWeb zeigt: Es wurde massenhaft eingesetzt, um Politiker, Unternehmerinnen & Prominente auszuspähen. www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/u...
(S+) Tracking von Politikern und Journalisten: Die dubiosen Geschäfte einer Überwachungsfirma
Ein Unternehmen vermarktet ein Spionagesystem, mit dem sich Handys orten lassen. Eine Recherche zeigt nun, dass es massenhaft eingesetzt wurde, um Enthüllungsjournalisten, Staatsanwälte und Minister a...
www.spiegel.de
October 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
lighthousereports.com
@orariccardo.bsky.social @irpimedia.eu explores how Altamides ended up in the hands of corporate investigators working for global oil company Eni irpimedia.irpi.eu/surveillance...
Anche un ex manager di Eni tra i bersagli del software che traccia i telefoni
È Roberto Casula, tracciato nell’aprile 2013. Eni aveva dato mandato a investigatori privati che si sono appoggiati ad Altamides, il sistema di First Wap. Che però in Italia può essere utilizzato solo...
irpimedia.irpi.eu
October 16, 2025 at 9:34 AM
papertrailmedia.de
📍 NEU: Kurz vor Veröffentlichung seines zweiten Vatikan-Buchs wurde Gianluigi Nuzzi eine Woche lang massiv geortet – fast 200 Standortabfragen in 7 Tagen. Eingesetzt wurde die Tracking-Plattform Altamides der Firma First Wap. Aber von wem? www.derstandard.at/story/310000...
Operation Nuzzi: Wer hat den Vatikan-Aufdecker überwacht?
Just als Gianluigi Nuzzi sein neues Aufdeckerbuch über den Vatikan herausbringt, wird der italienische Reporter massiv überwacht. Mit dabei: eine Firma unter deutsch-österreichischer Führung
www.derstandard.at
October 16, 2025 at 1:04 PM
caffeineislife.bsky.social
That Lighthouse Reports article on First Wap's Altamides, is quite good if you haven't read it yet. I can imagine there's other surveillance or tracking tools out there made by smaller software companies that are also really throwing some sales pitches toward the US gov now.
November 8, 2025 at 1:35 AM
honkhase.de
The Surveillance Empire That Tracked World Leaders, a Vatican Enemy, and Maybe You

"Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe"

#SS7 #Altamides #MassSurveillance
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you
Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.
www.motherjones.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:22 AM
orariccardo.bsky.social
#SurveillanceSecrets continua con le pubblicazioni. cosa ci fa un cluster di dipendenti della Red Bull tra i numeri delle vittime di Altamides, il software di localizzazione sviluppato da First Wap?
papertrailmedia.de paper trail media @papertrailmedia.de · Oct 15
🔴NEW #SurveillanceSecrets: Über 20 Mitarbeiter:innen des Red Bull Media House wurden über Jahre illegal überwacht. Die Meisten sind Führungskräfte. Sie wurden hunderte Male lokalisiert - im Büro, im Urlaub, bei Familienbesuchen. Auf der ganzen Welt. Wer steckt dahinter?
Mitarbeiter des Red-Bull-Konzerns wurden illegal getrackt. Aber von wem?
Eine internationale Recherche deckt intensive Überwachungsaktivitäten im österreichischen Konzern auf. Die Betroffenen zeigen sich schockiert
www.derstandard.at
October 15, 2025 at 10:42 AM
hatr.bsky.social
Phenomenal investigation into SS7 and the major security risk it poses.

A company called FirstWAP marketed "Altamides", a tool to track people all over the world. Among the targets: politicians, CEOs (e.g. Anne Wojcicki), journalists, and many more

www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/u...
(S+) Tracking von Politikern und Journalisten: Die dubiosen Geschäfte einer Überwachungsfirma
Ein Unternehmen vermarktet ein Spionagesystem, mit dem sich Handys orten lassen. Eine Recherche zeigt nun, dass es massenhaft eingesetzt wurde, um Enthüllungsjournalisten, Staatsanwälte und Minister a...
www.spiegel.de
October 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
lalgorisme.bsky.social
A diferència de Pegasus d’NSO Group. First Wap opera al perimetre, traient aventatge de protocols antics de telecomunicacions per rastrejar sense infectar dispositius. Altamides, és el nom del seu producte, que localitza telèfons o intercepta missatges.
October 26, 2025 at 11:41 AM
irpimedia.eu
Nel gennaio 2012 Altamides è stato utilizzato per cercare di localizzare persone vicine agli esponenti del partito di opposizione in esilio del Ruanda. Si tratta dell’ex capo dei servizi segreti, Patrick Karegeya, e l’ex capo di Stato maggiore, il generale Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa
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Oppositori politici del Ruanda tra i target di Altamides, il software di First Wap
Tracciati i numeri di telefono delle persone più vicine a due dei principali leader dell’opposizione in esilio in Sudafrica nel 2012. Il governo di Kigali nega ogni responsabilità, ma è accusato di av...
irpimedia.irpi.eu
October 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM