A 9th telecoms firm has been hit by a massive Chinese espionage campaign, the White House says
A 9th telecoms firm has been hit by a massive Chinese espionage campaign, the White House says
A top White House official says a ninth U.S. telecoms firm has been confirmed to have been hacked as part of a sprawling Chinese espionage campaign that gave officials in Beijing access to private texts and phone conversations of an unknown number of Americans.
Summary
A ninth U.S. telecom firm has been hacked in the Chinese espionage campaign “Salt Typhoon,” which gave Beijing access to private texts and calls of Americans, including senior government officials.
The Biden administration confirmed the breach after issuing guidance to detect Chinese hackers.
Officials call for mandatory cybersecurity regulations, as voluntary measures are deemed insufficient.
The FCC will address the issue next month, while further U.S. actions are expected.
China denies involvement.
Seems like the whole “a back door will be used by adversaries” people were right. Who would have thought? Sure seems like all the cops saying that they would be real safe, don’t worry, let’s break encryption so we can be more shitty were wrong. Fuck the cops. Use signal. Acab
The FCC will address the issue next month, while further U.S. actions are expected.
Right. I’ll start holding my breath now.
Remember when a bunch of hardware all across the world was discovered to have Chinese surveillance embedded in them and the US government told everyone and most of the corps shrugged?
Because that 'chinese surveillance' wasn't any different from the NSA backdoors. Exactly what this group exploits, incidentally.
Oh, no worries, Congress approved a $3 billion project this month that will come out of our taxes to pay the telecoms to do what they should have done in a span of over a decade. (Still remember the Huawei cell radios in my lab and going "wtf m8, we make these ourselves?!⁄¿") The poor suffering telecoms can't pay for it themselves, that's just too much work. They're welfare bitches.
The Bloomberg story? Last I saw it created quite a stir, companies checked their hardware, the only proof of the compromised hardware was that one Bloomberg-story, Bloomberg was unable to produce any more proof, and no one found any proof either.
Which one was SolarWind?
Now charge western secret service heads with treason and Marie Antoinette them. Because everyone told them this would happen.
Secret Service are presidential bodyguards, not corporate cybersecurity
The Secret Service actually does a lot more, but it's never really reported about. They investigate financial and cybercrime too.
All I can say is I hope China is enjoying all the pictures of my dogs.
I started to go for the racist joke here but I deleted it.
Is mainstream news even covering this? Most of the people I talk to have no clue about it.
Probably not. Why cover real issues when they can sanewash conspiracy nuts…?
How many boat anchors to they have?!