China’s salt hackers continue to violate Telecom firms despite US sanctions

Security researchers say the Chinese government’s associated hacking group, salt tribe, but continue to compromise telecommunication providers The latest sanctions imposed by the US government in the group.

In a report shared with Techcrunch, threatening exploration celebrated the future Salt Type – The company is followed by a violation of five telecommunications companies between December 2024, 2024 and 2025, as Redmike.

Salt Typhoon revealed the headings of last September, including AT & T and Verizon, including AT & T and Verizon, including US government officials and political figures, including several US phones and internet giants.

Salt Thai Hack to systems These law enforcement agencies are used to enter sensitive information as the personal data used for the authorized collection of customer information, as sensitive to US-controlled Chinese targets.

The written future refused to name Salt Typhoon, but said they entered a branch of a prominent British telecommunications provider in the United States; US Internet service provider and telecommunications companies in Italy, South Africa and Thailand.

The experience of hackers, as well as the experience of collecting and collecting information about the numerous infrastructure assets managed by the myanmar-based telecommunications provider, Mytel for the future.

To implement these attacks, the salt tribe exploited two vulnerabilities (CVE-20232-0198 and CVE-2023-20273) CISCO devices that do not operate the Cisco iOS XE program. Hacking Group tried to compromise over 1,000 Cisco devices on the perfect scale, especially the telecommunications providers drew attention to the devices related to networks.

The future said that the salt tribe, including University of California and Utah Tech, also observed the target devices, including the University of California. Researchers, Hacking Group, “These universities have aimed that they have aimed to join in areas related to telecommunications, engineering and technology.

The US government has allowed companies related to the group. US Treasury Department in January – He himself targeted by the Chinese government hackers Recently – this said that Sichuan Jukhinhe is a network technology, a Chinese-based Cyberecure company, known.

Despite this action, future researchers expect the salt to target telecommunication providers in the United States and other places.