{"id":937323,"date":"2025-06-09T08:20:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T02:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=937323"},"modified":"2025-06-09T09:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T03:35:08","slug":"chinese-hackers-user-lapses-turn-smartphones-into-mobile-security-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/09\/chinese-hackers-user-lapses-turn-smartphones-into-mobile-security-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese hackers, user lapses turn smartphones into &#8216;mobile security crisis&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity investigators noticed a highly unusual software crash &#8211; it was affecting a small number of smartphones belonging to people who worked in government, politics, tech and journalism. <\/p>\n<p>The crashes, which began late last year and carried into 2025, were the tipoff to a sophisticated cyberattack that may have allowed hackers to infiltrate a phone without a single click from the user.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity investigators noticed a highly unusual software crash &#8211; it was affecting a small number of smartphones belonging to people who worked in government, politics, tech and journalism. The crashes, which began late last year and carried into 2025, were the tipoff to a sophisticated cyberattack that may have allowed hackers to infiltrate a phone without a single click from the user.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-937323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}