Back in October, the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) accepted said they were investigating “unauthorized access to commercial telecommunications infrastructure by actors associated with the People’s Republic of China.” Collectively referred to as the “Salt Typhoon,” these bad actors allegedly targeted US officials and their staff for the recently concluded presidential election. But a few days later The Wall Street Journal stated that the group had access to more people than originally thought. Basically, the hackers could have accessed the data of any American who was an AT&T and Verizon customer. According to a new report, the list of these carriers has gotten a little longer Magazine and ReutersSalt Typhoon also infiltrated T-Mobile’s network.
Hackers are believed to be using various loopholes, such as Cisco Systems routers, to gain access to carriers’ networks. They also used AI and machine learning Magazine he said, and remained inside some of the systems they infiltrated for more than eight months. That’s enough time to get rid of a bunch of sensitive information — they allegedly accessed the phone lines of top US national security officials, as well as the call logs and unencrypted texts of their targets. Hackers were also reportedly able to access data collected by carriers to fulfill surveillance requests from American authorities.
This was reported by the spokesperson of the company Magazine T-Mobile is “closely monitoring” the attacks and said its systems and data were “not affected in any significant way.” They also said the carrier found no evidence that its customers’ data was compromised in the security breach.
