Norwegian leaders' cellphone calls intercepted by unknown group

Source: Aftenposten
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The false base stations to monitor the movements of ministers, politicians, government officials and ordinary people going in, out and around central buildings in Oslo. If there are criminals, foreign intelligence or other behind, is unknown.

... Several places are small, secret transmitters most likely acting as false base stations. They are so-called IMSI catchere, which can monitor all mobile activities in the area.

The governing surveillance equipment, will in principle be able to find out who moves past and into Parliament, government offices or other places in the area. They can also pick out certain people for monitoring and flood of data from the mobile phone.

For the first time in Norway, Aftenposten mapped the use of mobile surveillance equipment in Oslo. The measurements reveal that secret, fake base stations, so called IMSI catchers, most likely in use around several key buildings in the capital:

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Espionage possibility under investigation - Norway security authorities
http://theforeigner.no/pages/news/espionage-possibility-under-investigation---norway-security-authorities/

“We’re taking this very seriously and doing our own analyses,” National Security Authority (NSM) communications director Mona Strøm Arnøy tells The Foreigner, Saturday.

She makes her comments following Aftenposten’s revelations that central Oslo-located false mobile base stations have likely been deployed to monitor top politicians and others.

... To carry investigations out, Aftenposten staff employed the German-made CryptoPhone 500 mobile to discover these facilities between 10th October and 21st November this year.

Journalists, who discovered a considerable number of IMSI Catchers in the vicinity of the Parliament and Prime Minister’s Office, made 57 journeys and recorded 50,000 IMSI Catcher activity incidents over a 100-kilometre road distance (about 62 miles) in Oslo.