Senators are looking to prioritize legislation to address the widespread Chinese hacking of U.S. and global telecommunications networks.
Lawmakers were recently briefed on a massive hacking effort by a group called Salt Typhoon, which is said to be operated by the Chinese government. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), President-elect Donald Trump’s secretary of state nominee, painted the hack as the worst cybersecurity attack in history.
“It’s the most disturbing and widespread incursion into our telecommunications systems in the history of the world, not just the country, because of how massive our telecommunications system is,” Rubio, the ranking member on the Intelligence Committee, told reporters on Wednesday. “That’s about as bad as it gets.”
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After a briefing from officials in the FBI, the Federal Communications Commission, and
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