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Dozens of mobile providers across 35 countries are routing mobile traffic through major Chinese interconnect providers such as China Mobile International, China Telecom Global and China Unicom Global, allowing the Chinese telcos to conduct MITM attacks, track device locations in real time, intercept SMS and voice communications and "silently push spyware or malware onto target devices using signaling-level attacks."

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