Eavesdropping. Archival photoMOSCOW, 15 Apr. Intelligence agencies of NATO member countries actively connect to cellular subscribers, listening to conversations and blocking them, if necessary. Lieutenant-General Yuri Lastochkin, Chief of the Electronic Warfare Troops of the Russian Armed Forces, made such a statement in an interview with the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper. — he said. For these purposes, the special services of the countries of the North Atlantic Alliance, according to the general, use false base stations. As Lastochkin noted, scientists have joined in solving this problem. They created a system to counter unauthorized access to subscribers' information. Specialists can find a false base station and block the technical channel of information leakage. Communication with the legitimate base station of the cellular operator is restored after these operations. Among other things, 2G, 3G and 4G signals are being restored. Lastochkin added that at present, electronic warfare is firmly taking the place of the main type of operational support in all types and branches of the Armed Forces, and qualitatively new prospects are opening up before it.
Putin signed the law on responsibility for fakes about state bodies abroadIt was previously known that in March, many men in Russia received fake phone calls in which a robot answering machine reported about the need to appear at the military commissariat. The calls, according to Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov, came from the territory of Ukraine and were a provocation by the secret services of this country. On February 24, Russia launched a special military operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine. Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense, the armed forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops.
