New Delhi, July 15 -- US military personnel and contractors based in West Asia were allegedly targeted in a coordinated cyber-enabled surveillance campaign during the Iran war, with Tehran-linked actors exploiting vulnerabilities in global telecom networks and commercial smartphone data to track their locations, according to a report by the Financial Times.

The surveillance campaign unfolded in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli military operation against Iran in late February and continued after Tehran launched drone and missile attacks on American military installations across the Middle East, the report said, citing telecommunications data from the Mobile Surveillance Monitor research project.

According to the research project, m...