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.
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.
While it is expected that the United States will be targeted by elevated cyberespionage activity given the upcoming presidential elections and the culmination of influence operations, it's noteworthy that similar operations also target Canada.
The government announced on Friday that state-sponsored threat actors from China have been performing broad network scans over the past couple of months, targeting a wide spectrum of organizations.
Canada noted, however, that these scans are limited to reconnaissance and do not constitute security breaches on the mentioned entities.
- BleepingComputer