The formidable surveillance power of cell site simulators has put them at the forefront of privacy debates in the U.S. and Europe. Now The Associated Press has found evidence that the devices are at work sending threatening text messages to the soldiers fighting Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.
Associated Press: What are cell site simulators? And how do they work?
A Ukrainian soldier talks on the phone at a checkpoint on a road leading to the village of Lavki near the Ukrainian town of Mukacheve on July 13, 2015.
