China’s Salt Typhoon hackers continue to breach telecom firms despite US sanctions

Protection researchers say Imposed recent sanctions by the US government In the group.

In a report shared with Techcunch, the threat of the detective agency recorded that it observed that it was observed Salt -typhoon – which the company tracks as “Redmike” – violates five telecommunications agencies from December 2024 to January 2025.

Last September, Salt typhoon was titled that the group infiltrated several US phones and Internet giants, including AT&T and Verizon to get access to private communication with US senior government officials and political figures.

Salt -typhoon Hack on the system Law enforcement agencies use consumer data for approved collections of data courts, as possible access to the identity of the Chinese targets of US surveillance such as US surveillance.

The latest victims of the Salt typhoon were denied in the future, but they said that they include a US-based US-based telecommunications provider in the UK-based UK; A US Internet Service provider and telecommunications companies from Italy, South Africa and Thailand.

According to the recorded futures, Myanmar-based telecommunications suppliers, also reconsidered multiple infrastructure resources operated by the mite-secretly discovering and collecting about a system.

To run these attacks, Salt typhoon has absorbed two weaknesses (CVE -20232-0198 and CVE -2023-20273) to compromise with the Sisco IOS software operating with unpatched cisco devices. The hacking group has tried to compromise with more than a thousand Cisco devices worldwide, especially the telecommunications suppliers focus on the networks related to the networks, the recorded fuzzles.

The recorded futures reported that it noticed the typhoon related to universities, including the University of California and UTA Tech. Researchers said that the hacking group was “probably targeting these universities for access to research in telecommunications, engineering and technology cases.”

The US government has approved companies associated with the group. In January, the US Treasury Department – Itself is targeted by the Chinese government hackers It has recently said that it is known as the China-based cybercasting company Sichuan Nixinha Network Technology, which says it is directly associated with the Salt typhoon.

Recited future researchers say that despite this verb, it is expected to continue with telecommunications suppliers in the US and elsewhere in the US and elsewhere.