The warning was directed to users in the usa, but it is available all over the world. The FBI and the CISA (The agency's Cyber Security and the safety and Security of the it Infrastructure) has advised that the not to be sent SMS from the iPhone to the Android smartphone, and vice-versa, because the communication is not protected the encryption end-to-endeven by making use of the protocol RCS (Rich Communication Services). The discussion can be përgjoheshin by cyber criminals cyber, including those who belong to the group Salt Typhoon.
Apple does not support the enkriptimin to the RCS
During a press conference, the FBI, and the CISA announced that the cyber criminals cyber china, from the Salt Typhoon there are still the sites of the providers of the usa, including AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon. The interference was detected at the end of September, but the activities of espionage set off at least for a period of 8 months in advance.
The investigation is still ongoing, but at the same time, the operators may follow the instructions on the strengthening of the infrastructure of the communication. Instead, the user must use the apps of the message, such as WhatsApp and Signalof which is to protect the male kriptim out of the bottom in the end.
The use of the messaging SMS or RCS for the discussion between users of the iOS and Android there is strongly discouraged. Apple added support for the RCS in iOS 18, but the profile of the select (RCS Universal) does not kriptim from side to side. GSMA has announced that it will be added to the standard in-one update to the next.
Protection, the maximum guarantee is only sending messages to the RCS among the users of Android, with the Google Messages among users of iOS and with Apple's iMessage. apple 18.2 will be released in the following days, which will allow you to change the default message, so that it will be possible to select an option in the service of Apple.
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