Feds investigate China's Salt Typhoon amid campaign phone hacks

The feds are investigating Chinese government-linked cyberspies breaking into the infrastructure of US telecom companies, as reports suggest Salt Typhoon - the same crew believed to be behind those hacks - has also been targeting phones belonging to people affiliated with US Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, along …

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh noes. Hackers hacked the hacking system the government ordered to be installed. I remember many a discussion on these very pages about how government mandated back doors and surveillance are not a good idea. Who knew this would happen? Who could have foreseen this? When will these questions be answered or even asked?

[Snowy]

Government say have some of these ---->

Drink until you forget your idea that it was the government's fault it anyway that their backdoor was compromised. /s

[Grinning Bandicoot]

Remember if doing CPR and wish to check for responsiveness: I'm from the government and am here to help you.

I can't help it. Erich Frank Russel was my guru.

[herman]

Obviously US script kiddies

If it really were Chinese, the name would be a trplet like HooFlungDung.

[Will Godfrey]

Yawn

I'm just waiting for the entire house of cards to collapse - it can't be too far away now.

[PhilipN]

El Reg hits the mainstream!

Referenced at note 2 to Wikipedia's Salt Typhoon entry. Congrats!

Except ....let's get our facts straight - whoever "they" are is "reported" (we are not told by whom) to be operated by the Chinese Government.

And - chuckle - Salt Typhoon is what "they" are called by Microsoft. Others use different names.

Glad that's all settled and we know exactly with whom we are dealing - well, sort of. After all, The Register said it.

[saif]

Governments asked for this

By requiring every company that delivers private communications to be able to disclose these communications on demand, states force the vendor installation of exploitable vulnerabilities. End to end encryption becomes meaningless. Telegram, while appearing to resist this kind of exposure, is banned by authoritarian governments.