Rapid7 Reports State-Sponsored Espionage in Global Telecoms

**Rapid7 reports a sustained China-nexus espionage campaign (Red Menshen) targeting global telecommunications infrastructure, involving kernel-level backdoors and abuse of encrypted HTTPS traffic; the activity poses national security risks, exposes large-scale visibility gaps, and Rapid7 published a free scanning tool and is working with affected organizations to detect and mitigate compromises.**