It’s been called the “worst telecom hack” in U.S. history – and the United States wasn’t Salt Typhoon’s only target.
Cyberattacks linked to the Chinese government that compromised large portions of the United States’ telecommunications network have the U.S. government sounding the alarm. The chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator Mark Warner, has called it the “worst telecom hack in our nation’s history” and noted that it makes prior cyberattacks by Russian operatives look like “child’s play” by comparison.
The complex cyberattack, carried out by a group of Chinese hackers dubbed Salt Typhoon, began as far back as 2022. Its purpose, according to U.S. officials, was to give Chinese operatives persistent access to telecommunications networks across the United States by compromising devices like routers and switches run by companies like AT&T, Verizon, Lumen and others.
This attack comes on the heels of reports that the FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency were assisting teleph
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