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US authorities are urging Americans to useencrypted messaging appsto secure their sensitive data against foreign attackers.
The attack is considered among the largest intelligence compromises in US history and isn’t yet fully fixed.
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The China-linked Salt Typhoon group was first spottedtargeting US telecoms with a new backdoor malwarea few months ago.
Encryptionrefers to scrambling the data into an unreadable form to prevent third-party access.
Tech and privacy experts have welcomed the US authorities' endorsement of using encrypted communication software.
Metadata privacyis becoming a growing issue nowadays.
