{"id":688731,"date":"2025-09-03T18:50:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T15:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/venezuelas-president-thinks-american-spies-cant-hack-huawei-phones\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T18:50:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T15:50:28","slug":"venezuelas-president-thinks-american-spies-cant-hack-huawei-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/venezuelas-president-thinks-american-spies-cant-hack-huawei-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela’s president thinks American spies can’t hack Huawei phones"},"content":{"rendered":"
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During a press conference<\/a> on Monday, Venezuela\u2019s president, Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, showed off a Huawei smartphone that China\u2019s President Xi Jinping gifted him, calling it \u201cthe best phone in the world,\u201d and making a bold claim.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Americans can\u2019t hack it, neither their spy planes, nor their satellites,\u201d Maduro said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The phone looked like a Mate X6<\/a>, a foldable phone released by Huawei in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Obviously, nothing is impossible to hack, and even less so by U.S. government hackers, who are considered some of the best in the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A U.S. based vulnerability researcher told TechCrunch that because Huawei makes its own hardware, as well as its own mobile operating system \u2014 HarmonyOS \u2014 its devices are easier to hack.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s bound to be many more mistakes in their brand-new code than in iOS and Android at this time,\u201d said the researcher, who asked to remain anonymous to discuss sensitive issues.\u00a0<\/p>\n

HarmonyOS, which \u2014 like any software in the world \u2014 has had bugs and needs regular security updates. In the case of the Mate X6, Huawei promises monthly security patches<\/a>, but also notes that \u201cthe number of device models with monthly security patch updates is subject to change. Certain carriers may only support updates on a quarterly basis.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Last month alone, Huawei patched 60 bugs in HarmonyOS<\/a>, 13 of which were classified as \u201chigh severity\u201d bugs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Huawei acknowledges that malware can get on its devices and has a page dedicated to helping customers<\/a> who may have gotten their devices hacked.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Huawei did not respond to a request for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There is a documented history of U.S. government hackers targeting Huawei. In 2014, documents leaked by Edward Snowden revealed<\/a> that the NSA had hacked and hid backdoors inside Huawei servers in China. The hack was so bad that NSA spies got all the way inside Huawei\u2019s headquarters in Shenzhen, which allowed them to spy on company executives\u2019 communications, and get information about its products.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cMany of our targets communicate over Huawei-produced products,\u201d the NSA document said, according to The New York Times. \u201cWe want to make sure that we know how to exploit these products,\u201d it added, to \u201cgain access to networks of interest\u201d around the world.<\/p>\n

Even though that was in 2014, it is almost certain that the NSA, U.S. Cyber Command, and others have the mission to hack Huawei devices and find vulnerabilities in them for espionage purposes. There are likely U.S. government employees whose only job is to hack Huawei devices and systems. Earlier this year, the Chinese government accused the NSA<\/a> of targeting Chinese critical infrastructure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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During a press conference on Monday, Venezuela\u2019s president, Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, showed off a Huawei smartphone that China\u2019s President Xi Jinping gifted him, calling it \u201cthe best phone in the world,\u201d and making a bold claim. \u201cThe Americans can\u2019t hack it, neither their spy planes, nor their satellites,\u201d Maduro said.\u00a0 The phone looked like a Mate…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":688732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/nicolas-maduro-venezuela-huawei-cellphone.jpg?resize=1200,800","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[4973,70375,98963,70944,70513,74725,94765,158552,72287,155259,72916],"class_list":["post-688731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-china","tag-cybersecurity","tag-espionage","tag-hackers","tag-hacking","tag-huawei","tag-nsa","tag-nsa-spying","tag-security","tag-u-s-government","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}