Text messages sent from Android phones to iPhones are in danger of being hacked because their encryption methods don’t apply to each others’ systems, which won’t allow users to heed FBI and CISA warnings for Americans to use fully encrypted messages and phone calls when possible.

The agencies warned that Chinese hacking into U.S. networks is “ongoing and likely larger in scale than previously understood,” and using fully encrypted communications is the best defense, Forbes reported.

The attacks have been linked to Salt Typhoon, a hacking group linked with the Chinese Ministry of Public Security. While there has always been the possibility to intercept non-encrypted messages, advice from Jeff Greene of CISA, the government’s cyber security agency, and an unnamed FBI senior official recently suggested that Americans use encrypted apps for all their communications.

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