The “El Chapo” Mexican drug cartel snooped on FBI personnel through hacked cameras, and listened in on their phone calls to identify and kill potential witnesses, the US Department of Justice has said.
And seven years on, the Bureau’s defenses against this kind of surveillance are still inadequate. The findings came to light in a June 2025 report from the DoJ’s Inspector General. It identifies a threat that it calls ubiquitous technical surveillance (UTS), in which an attacker combines different kinds of data to build up a detailed profile of a subject. This links the subject to event, locations, and things.
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Source: Malwarebytes Labz
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