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Treasury sanctions Salt Typhoon hacking group behind breaches of major US telecom firms
The US government has also sanctioned the hacker responsible for December's US Treasury hack
The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced on Friday that it had sanctioned a China-based cybersecurity company, known as Sichuan Juxinhe Network Technology, which it says is directly linked to the China-backed Salt Typhoon hacking group. Salt Typhoon was recently identified as carrying out the largest telecommunications hack in U.S. history, after infiltrating at least nine U.S. telecom and internet providers, including AT&T and Verizon, to gain access to the private communications of senior U.S. government officials and political figures. Earlier this month, the U.S. government sanctioned another China-based cybersecurity company over its alleged links to a government-backed hacking group known as Flax Typhoon.
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