Cybersecurity News

Messages between Android and iPhone devices can be hacked, FBI warns

The agency says Chinese government actors are exploiting the vulnerability

Texting has become the preferred way to communicate among many smartphone users, but law enforcement officials have warned that not all of those communications are secure.

The FBI and CISA, the U.S. cyber defense agency, warn that text messages sent between iPhone and Android devices may be vulnerable to Chinese government hacking. Messages between devices using the same system, they say, do not have that vulnerability.

The agencies advise consumers to use full encryption...