How the NSA tried to hack the world’s cell networks

Yet another top-secret National Security Agency (NSA) program has been unearthed by Glenn Greenwald’s publication the Intercept. The report details a program called Auroragold, which according to the official documents leaked by Edward Snowden, specialized in spying on the email correspondence between carriers’ security experts to break into cellular networks and expose vulnerabilities. The unit would then exploit the flaws in the security system to listen in on the conversations and text messages carried by those cellular networks.