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US Officials Recommend Encryption Apps Amid Chinese Telecom Hacking
- US Federal Government officials are recommending US citizens utilise encryption apps such as Signal and WhatsApp in light of a recent Chinese government hacking scandal which is the largest telecom hack in the country's history.
- The Salt Typhoon attack has aimed to infiltrate US telecoms by using the same government wiretap methods that were previously put in place to access American communications.
- Specifically, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the FBI have encouraged Americans to use encryption in their communications in an attempt to protect themselves from compromise.
- The Salt Typhoon attack shows that users should be doing everything in their power to keep their online activity protected whilst online in today's digital age.
- Microsoft's threat intelligence researchers and Lumen Technologies have discovered that Turla, which is believed to operate for Russia's FSB intelligence agency, hacked the infrastructure of another hacker network based in Pakistan. The group then used access to spy on government, military and intelligence targets in India and Afghanistan.
- Hydra, a dark web market place, enabled over $5bn in dirty cryptocurrency transactions since 2015, according to crypto tracing firm Elliptic. The site was used as a narcotics bazaar as well as a means to launder money for various crimes including ransomware, scams and sanctions evasion.
- A DCI Group, a lobbying firm working on behalf of Exxon, was found to have given a list of targeted activists to a private investigator who then outsourced a hacking operation against those targets to mercenary hackers.
- An iVerify smartphone scanner has been utilised to quickly and easily detect spyware in devices and has so far flagged seven infiltrated with the invasive Pegasus surveillance tool.
- Russian law enforcement has charged and arrested Mikhail Matveev, also known as Wazawaka, a software developer thought to be associated with various ransomware gangs including LockBit, Conti, DarkSide, Babuk and Hive.
- A consortium of global law enforcement agencies, led by the UK's National Crime Agency, have led a takedown operation against two major money-laundering Russian networks.
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