Former US Army soldier Cameron Wagenius, who pleaded guilty in 2025 to hacking into telecom companies and to extortion, is sentenced to 70 months in prison
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Telecom access remains a high-value attack surface — a single motivated individual was able to penetrate multiple carriers and extort. If your operations depend on telco-integrated auth or signaling, treat carrier-side compromise as an assumed risk and harden your own controls accordingly.
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