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Concerned over cyber espionage, U.S. military bans sale of Chinese smartphones

ID: f2b94025-fa5b-55e1-9955-a901c7a43e3e

STIX ID: report--f2b94025-fa5b-55e1-9955-a901c7a43e3e

Feed Name: Security Ledger

Threat Score
75/100

Date Published: 2018-05-09

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Elizabeth Montalbano

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The article reports U.S. national-security concerns about Chinese-manufactured smartphones and related supply-chain firmware, citing DoD bans on Huawei/ZTE device sales at military exchanges, FTC findings that BLU devices using ADUPS firmware exfiltrated personal data to China, and privacy leaks from fitness apps like Strava; it frames these issues as evidence of potential Chinese state-linked cyber espionage and supply-chain vulnerabilities threatening military and civilian data.

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