DHS terminates all its advisory committees, ends "Salt Typhoon" investigation
Among the committees was the Cyber Safety Review Board that was conducting an investigation into the hack of American telecom ...
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Salt Typhoon: An Analysis of Vulnerabilities Exploited by this State-Sponsored Actor
Salt Typhoon, a state-sponsored actor linked to the People’s Republic of China, has breached at least nine U.S.-based telecommunications companies with the intent to target high profile government and ...
Trump’s DHS Guts Board Investigating Chinese Hacking Group Salt Typhoon
The board had gained notoriety after investigating major hacking incidents including the Log4Shell vulnerability, the hacking ...
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Trump disbands Cyber Safety Review Board, Salt Typhoon inquiry in limbo
Some experts are concerned that the dismissal of the Cyber Safety Review Board removes a critical security blanket and ...
Treasury sanctions Salt Typhoon hacking group behind breaches of major US telecom firms
The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced on Friday that it had sanctioned a China-based ...
Outgoing FCC head says Salt Typhoon hacking a clarion call to address security issues
The outgoing head of the Federal Communications Commission said a massive Chinese-linked cyber-espionage operation against ...
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Biden administration penalizes Chinese actors behind two major hacks
Officials have been referring to the hacking group as Salt Typhoon, a name bestowed by Microsoft, which was among the first to discover the breaches in September. The individual hacker behind the ...
Biden administration looks to penalize Salt Typhoon telecom hackers
The espionage hack of at least nine American telecommunication firms — including giants AT&T and Verizon — targeted the Trump ...
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Salt Typhoon breach was first detected on federal networks, CISA head says
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Jen Easterly said the group was first detected “before we ...
Meet the Chinese ‘Typhoon’ hackers preparing for war
U.S. intelligence says these China-backed hackers are among those laying the groundwork for future conflict with the United ...
China’s ‘Salt Typhoon’ telecom hack has sent shockwaves through the US intelligence community
China’s Ministry of State Security intelligence service was able to exploit the vulnerabilities of America’s antiquated ...