By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-21 18:47:46 | Updated at 2024-11-28 08:33:29
6 days ago
AT&T, Verizon reportedly hacked to target US govt wiretapping platform
BleepingComputer.com ^ | October 7, 2024 | Ionut Ilascu
Posted on 11/21/2024 10:23:17 AM PST by Still a Patriot
Multiple U.S. broadband providers, including Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen Technologies, have been breached by a Chinese hacking group tracked as Salt Typhoon, the Wall Street Journal reports.
The purpose of the attack appears to be intelligence collection as the hackers might have had access to systems used by the U.S. federal government for court-authorized network wiretapping requests.
It is unclear when the intrusion occurred, but WSJ cites people familiar with the matter, saying that "for months or longer, the hackers might have held access to network infrastructure used to cooperate with lawful U.S. requests for communications data."
Salt Typhoon is the name that Microsoft gave to this particular China-based threat actor. Other cybersecurity companies are tracking the adversary as Earth Estries (Trend Micro), FamousSparrow (ESET), Ghost Emperor (Kaspersky), and UNC2286 (Mandiant, now part of Google Cloud).
(Excerpt) Read more at bleepingcomputer.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: china; hackers; security
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And yet we are told that china is not a threat.........
To: Still a Patriot
Anybody tell the CIA or FBI? Nah! They don’t care.
2 posted on 11/21/2024 10:24:57 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Let's Go Brandon! FCS (Schumer))
To: FlingWingFlyer
“...Anybody tell the CIA or FBI? Nah! They don’t care...”
Knowing the communist regime in charge right now, they were probably ordered to actually assist em in it.
3 posted on 11/21/2024 10:28:05 AM PST by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created..." )
To: Still a Patriot
"access to systems used by the U.S. federal government for court-authorized network wiretapping requests."
And only court-authorized, right? Who else is more alarmed by this line than the China thing.
4 posted on 11/21/2024 10:40:03 AM PST by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
To: Still a Patriot
5 posted on 11/21/2024 10:44:27 AM PST by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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