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National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, on May 1, 2025, Washington looks on his phone while preparing for a television interview in the White House in the DC.
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Encrypted Messaging Application that president Donald TrumpthenNational Security Advisor Mike Waltz used in a work Cabinet meeting It was reported temporarily suspended last week.
Telemessage is an Israeli-built application that acts as a modified version Signalor did not get the messages of people he spoke 404 MediaHe first reported Cyberattack on Sunday.
However, the reported disorder is questioned by whether the application that allows customers Archive messages Moreover, the use of government officials is valid for the purposes of compliance.
“Telemessage is investigating a potential safety event,” a spokesman for SMARSH in a statement to CNBC. “When identified, we have moved quickly to contain it and we have been engaged in a foreign cyberecurity firm to support our investigation.”
“Out of the omaturu, all the telemessage services are temporarily suspended,” the press secretary said. “All other Sm3rsh products and services remain in full working condition.”
The data stolen by hacker includes content of messages sent using telemessage’s signal versions, WhatsApp, Telegram and Wechat.
In March, SMARSH declared a launch State Sector Department The purpose of the target “government agencies is to eliminate the growing need for reliable, appropriate communication solutions”. “
“It is worried about many levels of violation,” said Thomas Richards, the Director of Infrastructure Security Application Black duckA Massachusetts-based application security company, in the announcement of CNBC.
“Changing a safe messaging application and core functionality, violates the security model, such as backups of messages,” he said. “This creates security risk for users of application as it may contain sensitive information and is broken.”
The White House did not respond to CNBC’s request for a statement on the temporary suspension of CNBC’s telemessage services. Protected the use of the signal inside the management that was approved for the official use of the application and was loaded on the government telephones.
However, Trump was discouraged after the use of the signal after the controversial disputes in the administration of officials before “League“Waltz, a journalist, a journalist, added a journalist to the private discussion of military plans.
“I think you have learned: maybe not use the signal, okay?” Trump said in an interview with the Atlantic last month.
Trump’s statements were published two days ago from the meeting of the Cabinet of Wednesday when a photo was taken with Telemessage on Waltz telemessage on Waltz.
The photo was taken by Walts, Vice President JD Vance, National Intelligence Scissors Tulsi Gabbard and Special Archive Steve Witkoff said he communicated with Marko Rubio.
Part of the Signalgate dispute has attracted questions about automatically deleting messages in that private thread, potential impact Federal Notes-Retention Laws.
Telemessage markets itself as a way for government agencies and enterprises to comply with these laws by making copies of copies of copies to these laws.
However, 404 media, telemessage last week, can stop encrypting the signal to the end – because the confidentiality of the messages “Messages are taken after being detained in another place.”
Alarm spokesman NBC News on Friday, we cannot guarantee the confidentiality or security features of the signal to the NBC news on Friday. “
A day after the meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers, Trump announced that the United States will nominate Waltz to be the United States ambassador.
Rubio, the US archivist and actor archivist, which is already the administrator of the United States Agency Agency, will serve as a temporary national security advisor until the post is charged.
