The one consistent thing about China’s hacking war against America is that it’s always escalating.
A cyberattack tied to the Chinese government penetrated the networks of a wide swath of U.S. broadband providers, potentially accessing information from systems the federal government uses for court-authorized network wiretapping requests.
So China wiretapped our wiretapping.
The widespread compromise is considered a potentially catastrophic security breach and was carried out by a sophisticated Chinese hacking group dubbed Salt Typhoon. It appeared to be geared toward intelligence collection, the people said.
As distinct from…
U.S. officials in September said they had disrupted a network of more than 200,000 routers, cameras and other internet-connected consumer devices that served as an entry point into U.S. networks for a China-based hacking group called Flax Typhoon. And in January, federal officials disrupted Volt Typhoon, another China-linked campaign that has sought to infiltrate a swath of critical U.S. infrastructure. U.S. officials warned that Volt Typhoon appeared largely focused on prepositioning into networks to later detonate cyberattacks that could cripple operations of infrastructure. […]
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