U.S. officials urge Americans to use encrypted apps amid cyberattack

Wow, this is wild.

The hacking campaign, nicknamed Salt Typhoon by Microsoft, is one of the largest intelligence compromises in U.S. history, and it has not yet been fully remediated. Officials on a news call Tuesday refused to set a timetable for declaring the country’s telecommunications systems free of interlopers. Officials had told NBC News that China hacked AT&T, Verizon and Lumen Technologies to spy on customers.

For sure we should be using end-to-end encrypted solutions anyway. iMessage is. Otherwise use Signal. Also wee Gruber writeup.