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Salt Typhoon is hacking the world's phone and internet giants — here's everywhere that's been hit (techcrunch.com)
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The hacking group, attributed to China, is part of a wider cluster of hackers with the collective aim of helping China prepare for an eventual war with Taiwan, according to researchers. U.S. officials have called China’s potential invasion of Taiwan an “epoch-defining threat.” Much of the group’s efforts have focused on hacking Cisco routers at the edge of a company’s network to break in and taking control of surveillance devices that U.S. telecom companies are legally required to install to allow law enforcement to monitor calls and messages.

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The hacks allowed China to obtain call records, text messages, and captured phone audio from senior U.S. officials, many of whom were considered government targets of interest. This prompted the FBI to urge Americans to switch to end-to-end encrypted messaging apps, fearing that a foreign adversary could eavesdrop on their communications.

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Salt Typhoon went even further, hacking at least 200 companies around the world, according to FBI officials. The list of affected countries keeps growing.

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[–] chasteinsect@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What a friendly country! And people think i'm crazy when I try to avoid buying Chinese stuff as much as I can.

Satellite communications giant Viasat was also compromised, allowing hackers to gain access to tools used by law enforcement to access the communications of others.

Yeah let's keep installing surveillance backdoors guys it's safe surely.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 5 points 23 hours ago

Aye to make sure they can spy on us they've left us all vulnerable to everyone else as well. The NSA and their ilk covertly made sure everything was corrupted, as per the Snowden Files. They have their priorities all screwed up.