{"id":2325,"date":"2025-02-13T19:16:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T10:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/?p=2325"},"modified":"2025-02-13T19:16:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T10:16:12","slug":"chinas-salt-storm-hackers-proceed-to-breach-telecom-companies-regardless-of-us-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/?p=2325","title":{"rendered":"China’s Salt Storm hackers proceed to breach telecom companies regardless of US sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Safety researchers say the Chinese language government-linked hacking group, Salt Storm, is continuous to compromise telecommunications suppliers, regardless of the latest sanctions imposed by the U.S. authorities<\/a> on the group.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a report shared with TechCrunch, risk intelligence agency Recorded Future stated it had noticed Salt Storm<\/a> \u2014 which the corporate tracks as \u201cRedMike\u201d \u2014 breaching 5 telecommunications companies between December 2024 and January 2025.<\/p>\n

Salt Storm made headlines final September after it was revealed that the group had infiltrated a number of U.S. telephone and web giants, together with AT&T and Verizon, to achieve entry to the personal communications of senior U.S. authorities officers and political figures. <\/p>\n

Salt Storm additionally hacked into the methods<\/a> that legislation enforcement companies use for court-authorized assortment of buyer information, probably accessing delicate information such because the identities of Chinese language targets of U.S. surveillance.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Recorded Future declined to call Salt Storm\u2019s newest victims, however stated they embody a U.S.-based affiliate of a distinguished U.Okay. telecommunications supplier; a U.S. web service supplier, and telecommunications corporations in Italy, South Africa and Thailand.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The hackers additionally carried out reconnaissance \u2014 the follow of covertly discovering and amassing details about a system \u2014 on a number of infrastructure belongings operated by Myanmar-based telecommunications supplier, Mytel, in line with Recorded Future.<\/p>\n

To hold out these assaults, Salt Storm exploited two vulnerabilities (tracked as CVE-20232-0198 and CVE-2023-20273) to compromise unpatched Cisco gadgets operating Cisco IOS XE software program.\u00a0The hacking group has tried to compromise greater than 1,000 Cisco gadgets globally, focusing significantly on gadgets related to telecommunications suppliers\u2019 networks, Recorded Future stated.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Recorded Future stated it had additionally noticed Salt Storm focusing on gadgets related to universities, together with the College of California and Utah Tech. The researchers stated the hacking group \u201cprobably focused these universities to entry analysis in areas associated to telecommunications, engineering, and know-how.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The U.S. authorities has sanctioned corporations linked to the group. In January, the U.S. Treasury Division \u2014 itself focused by Chinese language authorities hackers<\/a> just lately \u2014 stated it had sanctioned a China-based cybersecurity firm generally known as Sichuan Juxinhe Community Know-how, which it says is straight linked to Salt Storm.<\/p>\n

Recorded Future\u2019s researchers say regardless of this motion, it expects Salt Storm to proceed focusing on telecommunications suppliers within the U.S. and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Safety researchers say the Chinese language government-linked hacking group, Salt Storm, is continuous to compromise telecommunications suppliers, regardless of the latest sanctions imposed by the U.S. authorities on the group.\u00a0 In a report shared with TechCrunch, risk intelligence agency Recorded Future stated it had noticed Salt Storm \u2014 which the corporate tracks as \u201cRedMike\u201d \u2014 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2326,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions\/2326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}