Hardening Software RNGs with Don Pezet, ITProTV – Paul’s Security Weekly #522

Infiltration of U.S. telecommunications networks by Chinese state-backed threat operation Salt Typhoon has prompted the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to issue a new advisory urging senior government officials and politicians, to leverage end-to-end encrypted messaging apps on their Android and Apple devices, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

Initially identified in the phone of the assassin of Dutch journalist Peter de Vries, Matrix — also known as Mactrix, X-quantum, Totalsec, and Q-safe — was later infiltrated by a joint Dutch and French investigation team, resulting in the discovery and shutdown of 40 servers leveraged by the platform to support at least 8,000 subscriber accounts.

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