The FBI and the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have disclosed that Chinese hackers breached commercial telecommunication service providers in the United States.
The breached entities have been warned, and the agencies are proactively alerting other potential targets of the elevated cyber activity.
“The U.S. Government is investigating the unauthorized access to commercial telecommunications infrastructure by actors affiliated with the People’s Republic of China,” reads the announcement.
At the start of the month, it was revealed that a Chinese hacking group tracked as Salt Typhoon had breached multiple U.S. broadband providers, including Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen Technologies.
The operation’s goal appeared to be espionage, and the hackers gained access to a communications interception system major telecoms maintain to accommodate lawful crime investigation requests by the authorities. Read the full story.
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