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September 19, 2026 at 3:42 PM
realseancory.bsky.social
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FULL SHORT DOCUMENTARY: Surveillance Secrets Last year the investigative newsroom Lighthouse Reports obtained a secret archive, containing more than a million instances where Altamides was used to tra...
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October 17, 2025 at 4:33 AM
jnyanydts.bsky.social
Amazing story! First Wap’s primary product is a #surveillance tool called #Altamides… the ability to track a phone # anywhere in the world with no trace... intercept text mssg & phone calls, & breach encrypted mssg apps like #WhatsApp. #vatican #scary
www.lighthousereports.com/methodology/...
How First Wap Tracks Phones Around the World
From telecom protocols to a 1.5 million row dataset, here’s how we uncovered the reach and tactics of a mercenary phone-tracking company
www.lighthousereports.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:12 PM
richspk.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy
First Wap's ALTAMIDES:
https://www.lighthousereports.com/investigation/surveillance-secrets/
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
October 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
darthwaiter.eurosky.social
First Wap opracowała Altamides, narzędzie do śledzenia telefonów komórkowych bez pozostawiania śladów, wykorzystujące protokół SS7 - ukryty kręgosłup telefonii komórkowej. Śledziła kontakty od USA, przez Rwandę po Watykan. Izraelski Pegasus to przy nich płotki.
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 15, 2025 at 3:27 AM
latitude77.bsky.social
Surveillance Secrets - Lighthouse Reports #location #tracking #surveillance #altamides #dystopia #firstwap #smartphone #ss7
October 17, 2025 at 7:41 AM
bruno-renkin.bsky.social
Despotism as a service #FirstWap #Altamides #NSOGroup
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 16, 2025 at 7:46 AM
ajsdecepida.bsky.social
{𝙖𝙅𝙎𝘿} 🚨 MUST-READ: A Jakarta-based vendor (❝First Wap❞) built an SS7-powered tracking empire —𝐀𝐥𝐭𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐬— quietly geolocating politicians, journalists, execs & activists worldwide, even on U.S. soil. Privacy wasn’t hacked; it was bypassed. 📱🌍🕵️‍♂️
A global SS7-based tracking platform —Altamides, built by Indonesia-based First Wap— quietly geolocated targets across one hundred countries for years, leaving no implant or click trail. A leaked log (spanning two thousand seven to two thousand fourteen) ties operations to US soil, Vatican intrigue, corporate vendettas, and authoritarian buyers via resellers. Executives discussed routing sales through fronts to skirt export controls and sanctions. Company statements insist sales go only to vetted government entities with legal mandates, but the archive and on-tape sales talk show sanction-evasion gymnastics, corporate and personal misuse, and a market now adding interception and 2FA-bypass to real-time location. The picture isn’t ❝a few bad apples.❞ It’s an industry: despotism-as-a-service, compliance theatre included. ❝The problem is the export license, huh? For this we can find a…a way.❞ Guenther Rudolph, ❝The Surveillance Empire That Tracked World Leaders, a Vatican Enemy, and Maybe You,❞ Mother Jones, Tue. 14-Oct-2025 ❝We will never know about this project.❞ Guenther Rudolph, Ibid ❝Could it access encrypted WhatsApp chats? ❛Easily,❜ said Rudolph.❞ Guenther Rudolph, Ibid ❝Altamides leaves no trace on the phones it targets… [and] uses SS7 to zero in on phone numbers and trace the location of their users.❞ Gabriel Geiger, Crofton Black, Emmanuel Freudenthal, and Riccardo Coluccini, Ibid ❝The First Wap archive reveals extensive cell phone tracking in the US… Yet Altamides was deployed in thousands of tracking operations on US soil.❞ Ibid These findings ❝underscore the glaring weaknesses in our phone system… while foreign hackers spy on executives and government officials with impunity, making all Americans less safe.❞ Sen. Ron Wyden, Ibid ❝What’s happening here is a very specialized industry that’s enabling some of the world’s worst dictators and despots to undermine the foundational pillars of liberal democracy.❞ Ron Deibert, Ibid ❝This is essentially despotism as a service.❞ Ron Deibert, Ibid ❝Altamides will be used by governments which brings into question civil rights issues… But then that is their problem not ours!❞ Stuart Poole-Robb (email), Ibid ❝It can start, let’s say, minimum one million… It can get up to fifteen to twenty million theoretically, if they buy all the features in there.❞ Jonny Goebel, Ibid ❝I feel very vulnerable. Like there is no privacy, there is no private safe space where I can just be left alone.❞ ❝Sophia❞ (pseudonym), Ibid 🤔 🤔 🤔 Who actually controls SS7 access and auditing? Why do cross-border requests still get trusted by default in 2025? 🛰️🔐 Regulators: where are FCC/FTC/CISA and EU telecom watchdogs on mandatory SS7 firewalls & disclosure to targets? 🧾⚖️ Sanctions whack-a-mole: will the U.S./EU extend penalties to resellers, shells, and carriers that route these pings? 🕸️💸 Practical now: kill SMS 2FA in favour of app/hardware keys; minimize public phone-number exposure; demand your carrier enable anti-SS7 filtering. What recourse will victims get? 🧯🗝️
October 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
tech2geek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Altamides: The Global Spyware Scandal That Hijacked Phone Networks for 20 Years
https://www.tech2geek.net/altamides-the-global-spyware-scandal-that-hijacked-phone-networks-for-20-years/
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November 25, 2025 at 7:04 AM
fkasten.bsky.social
“Dubiose Geschäfte einer Überwachungsfirma

Ein Unternehmen vermarktet ein Spionagesystem, mit dem sich Handys orten lassen. Eine Recherche zeigt, dass es massenhaft eingesetzt wurde, um Enthüllungsjournalisten… auszuspähen” @spiegel.de -Recherche www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/u... #Altamides #firstwap
(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...
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October 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
ahund.czesky.online
Všechny tyto osoby byly lokalizovány pomocí technologie zvané „Altamides“ od sledovací společnosti First Wap, kterou v Jakartě založil Tyrolan Josef Fuchs.
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October 15, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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The Surveillance Empire That Tracked World Leaders, a Vatican Enemy, and Maybe You – Mother Jones https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/firstwap-altamides-phone-tracking-surveillance-secrets-assad-erik-prince-jared-leto-anne-wojcicki/
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 15, 2025 at 2:57 AM
stringsvsatoms.bsky.social
Investigation studied numerous confidential documents & communications to understand how Altamides — an acronym for “Advanced Location Tracking & Mobile Information & Deception System”— was marketed & deployed.

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10/10
Big Brother aus Österreich: Die Firma, die Handys weltweit überwachte
Eine verdeckte Recherche legt offen, wie mit der Technik eines deutsch-österreichischen Unternehmens Politiker, Journalisten und Prominente getrackt wurden
www.derstandard.at
October 15, 2025 at 8:34 AM
stringsvsatoms.bsky.social
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.

🔗 www.lighthousereport...
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How First Wap Tracks Phones Around the World
From telecom protocols to a 1.5 million row dataset, here’s how we uncovered the reach and tactics of a mercenary phone-tracking company
www.lighthousereports.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:34 AM
stringsvsatoms.bsky.social
First Wap emphasizes that its technology is used by law enforcement to “fight against organized crime, terrorism and corruption.” It sells Altamides directly, as well as through third-party resellers.

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Investigasi: Jejak Pelacakan Nomor Telepon Aktivis dan Tokoh Publik
First Wap melacak belasan ribu nomor telepon aktivis dan tokoh publik. Kolaborasi Tempo dan Lighthouse Reports.
www.tempo.co
October 15, 2025 at 8:33 AM
stringsvsatoms.bsky.social
Altamides leaves no trace on target's phones, 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.

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First Wap, la pioniera delle società di sorveglianza di cui non avete mai sentito parlare
Dal 2007 sfrutta vulnerabilità della rete telefonica per localizzare telefoni, registrare chiamate e dirottare il traffico internet. Tra le vittime il giornalista Nuzzi e un ex manager Eni. Un archivio segreto svela la rete di attività
irpimedia.irpi.eu
October 15, 2025 at 8:33 AM
stringsvsatoms.bsky.social
So what do we know about the company 'First Wap' (remember NSO Group & Intellexa) who have developed this phone tracking spyware called 'Altamides' (remember Pegasus & Predetor?) which can tracks anyone?

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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 15, 2025 at 8:33 AM
orariccardo.bsky.social
il terzo rivela invece il momento in cui tecnologie di sorveglianza tracimano nel mondo reale. tra le vittime di Altamides molte sono persone comuni, non hanno una spiegazione per quanto avvenuto, sono sorprese. Qui raccontiamo la vicenda di Sophia irpimedia.irpi.eu/surveillance...
La storia di Sophia, una delle diecimila vittime di Altamides
Contattata dai giornalisti, non riusciva a spiegarsi chi ne volesse tracciare i movimenti. Poi ha ricostruito l’incontro con un uomo pakistano che le faceva avances con molta insistenza
irpimedia.irpi.eu
October 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
orariccardo.bsky.social
il secondo ci porta in Ruanda e mostra come Altamides possa essere usato come strumento repressivo. Sono stati tracciati i numeri di telefono delle persone più vicine a due dei principali leader dell’opposizione in esilio in Sudafrica irpimedia.irpi.eu/surveillance...
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 3:10 PM
orariccardo.bsky.social
il primo svela come strumenti pensati per indagini di polizia e agenzie governative finiscano in mano ad aziende di investigazione privata per essere usati per i propri clienti corporate. Un ex manager di Eni è infatti tra i bersagli del software 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 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
orariccardo.bsky.social
oggi escono altre 3 storie su @irpimedia.eu che fanno parte dell'inchiesta #SurveillanceSecrets guidata da @lighthousereports.com e @papertrailmedia.de e permettono di esplorare altrettanti aspetti dei sistemi di localizzazione come Altamides irpimedia.irpi.eu/surveillance...
First Wap, la pioniera delle società di sorveglianza di cui non avete mai sentito parlare
Dal 2007 sfrutta vulnerabilità della rete telefonica per localizzare telefoni, registrare chiamate e dirottare il traffico internet. Tra le vittime il giornalista Nuzzi e un ex manager Eni. Un archivi...
irpimedia.irpi.eu
October 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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
orariccardo.bsky.social
Per chi volesse capire come funziona Altamides e come abbiamo effettuato l’analisi dei dati, qui c’è un articolo di spiegazione sulla metodologia www.lighthousereports.com/methodology/...
How First Wap Tracks Phones Around the World
From telecom protocols to a 1.5 million row dataset, here’s how we uncovered the reach and tactics of a mercenary phone-tracking company
www.lighthousereports.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM
orariccardo.bsky.social
Negli anni First Wap ha aggiunto ulteriori capacità al proprio sistema. Oggi Altamides riesce anche a intercettare chiamate ed sms, oltre a rubare un account WhatsApp di una vittima e dirottare il traffico internet di un dispositivo. Non è uno spyware, non si installa nulla
October 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM