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First Wap Altamides: SS7 Phone-Tracking Empire Revealed

🔎 Operating from Jakarta, First Wap markets a covert phone-tracking system called Altamides that leverages the legacy telecom protocol SS7 to locate subscribers in real time. Unlike device-targeting spyware such as Pegasus, Altamides requires no malicious link or implant and leaves minimal forensic traces on phones. Reporting from Mother Jones and Lighthouse Reports traces how permissive export rules and a global client network have allowed this capability to spread.