{"id":5096,"date":"2025-07-04T05:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T05:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/04\/surveillance-used-by-a-drug-cartel-html\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T05:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T05:00:16","slug":"surveillance-used-by-a-drug-cartel-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/04\/surveillance-used-by-a-drug-cartel-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Surveillance Used by a Drug Cartel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A hacker working for the Sinaloa drug cartel was able to obtain an FBI official\u2019s phone records and use Mexico City\u2019s surveillance cameras to help track and kill the agency\u2019s informants in 2018, according to a new US justice department report.<\/p>\n

The incident was disclosed in a justice department inspector general\u2019s audit of the FBI\u2019s efforts to mitigate the effects of \u201cubiquitous technical surveillance,\u201d a term used to describe the global proliferation of cameras and the thriving trade in vast stores of communications, travel, and location data.<\/p>\n

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The report said the hacker identified an FBI assistant legal attach\u00e9 at the US embassy in Mexico City and was able to use the attach\u00e9\u2019s phone number \u201cto obtain calls made and received, as well as geolocation data.\u201d The report said the hacker also \u201cused Mexico City\u2019s camera system to follow the [FBI official] through the city and identify people the [official] met with.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Surveillance Used by a Drug Cartel Once you build a surveillance system, you can\u2019t control who will use it: A hacker working for the Sinaloa drug cartel was able to obtain an FBI official\u2019s phone records and use Mexico City\u2019s surveillance cameras to help track and kill the agency\u2019s informants in 2018, according to a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,1488,573,82,83,984,85,1],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-5096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bruce-schneier","category-drug-trade","category-fbi","category-geolocation","category-privacy","category-reports","category-surveillance","category-uncategorized","tag-bruce-schneier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}