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A month ago the Wall Street Journal reported that a group of Chinese hackers had infiltrated US internet providers. The hacking campaign was dubbed “Salt Typhoon.”
Hackers linked to the Chinese government have broken into a handful of U.S. internet-service providers in recent months in pursuit of sensitive information, according to people familiar with the matter.
In Salt Typhoon, the actors linked to China burrowed into America’s broadband networks. In this type of intrusion, bad actors aim to establish a foothold within the infrastructure of cable and broadband providers that would allow them to access data stored by telecommunications companies or launch a damaging cyberattack.
Investigators are exploring whether the intruders gained access to Cisco Systems routers, core network components that route much of the traffic on the internet, according to people familiar with the matter.
As you can tell, details of what the hackers were trying to do and how far they got were pretty limited in that initial report.
