Notorious Chinese hacking group Salt Typhoon found lurking in European telecom networks
Notorious Chinese hacking group Salt Typhoon found lurking in European telecom networks
Notorious Chinese hacking group Salt Typhoon found lurking in European comms networks
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/44445362
- Notorious hacking group Salt Typhoon has likely been targeting Telecom orgs
- Researchers identified tactics previously used by the group
- Salt Typhoon breached up to 8 US telecom networks in a huge cyber-espionage campaign
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A new report from Darktrace claims the [Chinese hacking group Salt Typhoon] has been observed, "targeting global infrastructure using stealthy techniques such as DLL sideloading and zero-day exploits."
The early stage intrusion activity detected mirrors previous Salt Typhoon tactics, such as the prolific attacks on up to 8 different telecom organizations in a far reaching and potent multi-year campaign which resulted in the group stealing information from millions of American telecom customers using a high severity Cisco flaw to gain access and eventually collect traffic from the networks devices were connected to.
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