After building a device that hacks into devices, a Bloemfontein-based company is trying to get the State Security Agency (SSA) to pay it for the “grabber”.
After building a device that hacks into devices, a Bloemfontein-based company is trying to get the State Security Agency to pay it for the “grabber”.
The device, which is known as the international mobile subscriber identity-catcher, or Imsi-catcher, can be used to locate and track all mobile phones that are switched on in a certain area.The Imsi-catcher they supplied was apparently upgraded so that it could also attack devices through wi-fi, 3G and Bluetooth. This allows it to gather data from devices. It is sophisticated enough to bypass firewalls.
In transcripts of the meeting, which the M&G has seen, he explained how the device worked: “You need to be about, they said, six or seven kilometres away from your target place. So, if you wanted to crack into their computers or listen to us and so forth.” A former government official who was attached to the SSA said that the device raised a lot of questions at “The Farm” in 2018 — as no one knew what it was doing there, how it was operated and if it had been used.
Saber Industries has been trying to recoup the rest of the money it claims it is owed since September last year. The SSA refused to pay this without any proof of a contract and has instituted a forensic investigation, which current State Security Minister Ayanda Dlodlo has continued with. The M&G recently reported that the alleged fraudulent invoices that were paid by SSA were looted from the agency’s slush fund by officials in the agency, and their co-conspirators outside it.
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