Matt Novak reports:
America’s top cybersecurity and law enforcement officials made a coordinated push Tuesday to raise awareness about cyber threats from foreign actors in the wake of an intrusion of U.S. telecom equipment dubbed Salt Typhoon. The hackers are linked to the Chinese government and they still have a presence in U.S. systems, spying on American communications, in what Sen. Mark Warner from Virginia has called “the worst hack in our nation’s history.”
Officials with the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and FBI went so far as to urge Americans to use encrypted messaging apps, according to a new report from NBC News, something that’s ostensibly about keeping foreign hackers out of your communications.
Read more at Gizmodo.
via Joe Cadillic
As I posted earlier on Infosec.Exchange:
So the same government that complains about how encrypted communications makes it harder for them to catch criminals and terrorists and they really really need a backdoor or some access solution is now advising us to use encrypted communications because of Salt Typhoon?
That government?
Well, okay then….