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• www.techmeme.com: This link directs to Techmeme, the source of the article about the CFPB's warning about potential telecom intrusion risks.
• infosec.exchange: This post provides information about the CFPB's warning to its employees about potential telecom intrusion risks from China-linked hackers.
• techhub.social: This post provides information about the CFPB's warning to its employees about potential telecom intrusion risks from China-linked hackers.
• disobey.net: wild. A federal agency has issued a directive to employees to reduce the use of their phones for work matters because of China’s recent hack of U.S. telecommunications infrastructure, according to people familiar with the matter. In an email to staff sent Thursday, the chief information officer at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau warned that internal and external work-related meetings and conversations that involve nonpublic data should only be held on platforms such as Microsoft Teams and Cisco WebEx and not on work-issued or personal phones. “Do NOT conduct CFPB work using mobile voice calls or text messages,” the email said, while referencing a recent government statement acknowledging the telecommunications infrastructure attack. “While there is no evidence that CFPB has been targeted by this unauthorized access, I ask for your compliance with these directives so we reduce the risk that we will be compromised,” said the email, which was sent to all CFPB employees and contractors. The alert is the latest demonstration of concerns within the federal government about the scale and scope of the hack, which investigators are still endeavoring to fully understand and have attributed to a group dubbed .
• securityaffairs.com: This story is about Salt Typhoon Hack

Classification:

• HashTags: #Cybersecurity #Hacking #SaltTyphoon
• Company: CFPB
• Target: Telecom Providers
• Attacker: Salt Typhoon
• Product: Cellphone
• Type: Hack
• Severity: Medium