mobile carriers don’t need GPS to get your location.

Statistics are so easy to manipulate. Look at the actual data and it’s obviously click-bait. Yeah the number is up but not so much in context.

The posted article says no, not even with an amateur telescope

scrambled eggs

(https://blog.knowbe4.com/how-a-north-korean-fake-it-worker-tried-to-infiltrate-us) They are saying they caught the guy before he had access to anything important.