#salt-typhoon

#salt-typhoon

The agency tasked with protecting the president and vice president did not share evidence of a specific plot or threat against world leaders during the annual gathering. However, the U.S. Secret Service Director Sean Curran said that the "potential" for damage was significant, ranging from disabling regional cellphone towers to facilitating communications between criminals and foreign adversaries. The network could also likely be used for espionage.

Salt Typhoon is the People's Republic of China spying gang that hacked America's major telecommunications firms and stole metadata and other information belonging to " nearly every American," according to a top FBI cyber official who spoke with The Register about the intrusions. UNC4841 is best known for a series of 2023 attacks that targeted CVE-2023-2868, a critical bug in some Barracuda Email Security Gateways, to deploy custom malware and maintain access to high-value networks, about a third of which belonged to government organizations.