Hacker News with Generative AI: Telecoms

China's Salt Typhoon Spies Still Hacking Telecoms by Exploiting Cisco Routers (wired.com)
When the Chinese hacker group known as Salt Typhoon was revealed last fall to have deeply penetrated major US telecommunications companies—ultimately breaching no fewer than nine of the phone carriers and accessing Americans' texts and calls in real time—that hacking campaign was treated as a four-alarm fire by the US government.
A 9th telecoms firm has been hit by a Chinese espionage campaign: WH (apnews.com)
A ninth U.S. telecoms firm has been confirmed to have been hacked as part of a sprawling Chinese espionage campaign that gave officials in Beijing access to private texts and phone conversations of an unknown number of Americans, a top White House official said Friday.
Telecoms Bankroll More Misleading Attacks on Community Broadband Networks (techdirt.com)
AT&T's Hobbit Microprocessor (2023) (thechipletter.substack.com)
Telecoms giant AT&T once had giant computing ambitions.