Chinese Government Suspected Of Major Hack On 10 Global Phone Companies, Reports - Forbes

Chinese Government Suspected Of Major Hack On 10 Global Phone Companies, Reports Forbes

An Israeli-U.S. cybersecurity firm released a new report on Monday evening, claiming that “nation-state” hackers had compromised the systems of at least ten cellular carriers around the world to steal metadata related to specific users. Albeit unconfirmed, both the targeted individuals and the hackers are believed to link to China. None of the affected carriers or targeted individuals have been named. Cybereason claimed that the sophistication and scale of the attack, which they have dubbed Operation Softcell, bear the hallmarks of a nation-state action and that the individual targets—milit...