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


Threat intelligence firm Recorded Future said it had observed Salt Typhoon breaching 5 telcos between December 2024 and January 2025.

Salt Typhoon made headlines last September after it was revealed that the group had infiltrated several U.S. phone and internet giants, including AT&T and Verizon, to gain access to the private communications of senior U.S. government officials and political figures. The hackers also performed reconnaissance — the practice of covertly discovering and collecting information about a system — on multiple infrastructure assets operated by Myanmar-based telecommunications provider, Mytel, according to Recorded Future. In January, the U.S. Treasury Department — itself targeted by Chinese government hackers recently — said it had sanctioned a China-based cybersecurity company known as Sichuan Juxinhe Network Technology, which it says is directly linked to Salt Typhoon.

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