Dismantling of an encrypted network sends shockwaves through organised crime groups across Europe

At a joint press conference today, French and Dutch law enforcement and judicial authorities, Europol and Eurojust presented the impressive results of a joint investigation team to dismantle EncroChat, an encrypted phone network widely used by criminal networks.

Over the last months, the joint investigation made it possible to intercept, share and analyse millions of messages that were exchanged between criminals to plan serious crimes. For an important part, these messages were read by law enforcement in real time, over the shoulder of the unsuspecting senders.

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Backdoor accounts discovered in 29 FTTH devices from Chinese vendor C-Data

The backdoor accounts grant access to a secret Telnet admin account running on the devices' external WAN interface.

Two security researchers said this week that they found severe vulnerabilities and what appears to be intentional backdoors in the firmware of 29 FTTH OLT devices from popular vendor C-Data.

FTTH stands for Fiber-To-The-Home, while OLT stands for Optical Line Termination.

The term FTTH OLT refers to networking equipment that allows internet service providers to bring fiber optics cables as close to the end-users as possible.

As their name hints, these devices are the termination on a fiber optics network, converting data from an optical line into a classic Ethernet cable connection that's then plugged in a consumer's home, data centers, or business centers.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/backdoor-accounts-discovered-in-29-ftth-devices-from-chinese-vendor-c-data

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