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Chinese hackers, recently took advantage in the vulnerabilities of many U.S. cellphone companies, making your data insecure. Please use Signal if you are passing along sensitive information in text form, particularly since many of you aspire to be politicians,
A Chinese hacking campaign that has spied on the texts and calls of U.S. citizens by hacking telecommunications companies is significantly larger than previously known to the public, a top White House official said Wednesday.
At least eight American telecommunications companies have been compromised, Anne Neuberger, a deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technology at the National Security Council, said in a press call Wednesday. U.S. officials had named three of the companies to NBC News: AT&T, Verizon and Lumen Technologies. The names of the other five companies are not known.
Thus requires nation state threat actors to pull something like this off, so it is the government of China behind it.
They have infiltrated the U.S. treasury.
WASHINGTON, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Chinese state-sponsored hackers breached the U.S. Treasury Department's computer security guardrails this month and stole documents in what Treasury called a "major incident," according to a letter to lawmakers, opens new tab that Treasury officials provided to Reuters on Monday.The hackers compromised third-party cybersecurity service provider BeyondTrust and were able to access unclassified documents, the letter said.According to the letter, hackers "gained access to a key used by the vendor to secure a cloud-based service used to remotely provide technical support for Treasury Departmental Offices (DO) end users. With access to the stolen key, the threat actor was able to override the service’s security, remotely access certain Treasury DO user workstations, and access certain unclassified documents maintained by those users.""Based on available indicators, the incident has been attributed to a China state-sponsored Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actor," the letter said.
Maybe worst of all and something that is not making the news is that over the last 18 months, China has shipping vessels go over fiber optic cables the provide the internet. these lines in the oceans between nations and dropped anchors on them to cost maybe billions in damage. essentially they are attacking the internet of western countries. This occurred 3 times.
A Chinese-owned ship is being accused of damaging an undersea internet cable connecting Taiwan to outlying islands, according to reports from the region, following accusations of a similar cable-cutting incident by China in Europe’s Baltic Sea just weeks ago.Taiwan’s Coast Guard stated in a notice that the cable was damaged Friday in waters off the northern coast of the island, the state-owned Central News Agency reported from Taipei.Taiwanese officials told the Taipei Times the cable disruption was the result of Chinese sabotage.The cable disruption is the second related to Chinese ships in recent weeks. European authorities suspect a Chinese freighter severed two underwater cables in the Baltic Sea in November that disrupted regional communications and prompted claims of pro-Russian sabotage.
I honestly think they are taking advantage of a weak United States president, but regardless who is president, the Chinese need to be handled very harshly. Run some war games off their cost to remind them of how vulnerable they are, impose really high tarrifs and refuse to prosecute american hackers who target their systems. Either way the Chinese can not be allowed to do this, and they should also be humiliated for it
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