From the New York Times: China has hacked into American power grids and companies for decades, stealing sensitive files and intellectual property such as chip designs as it seeks to gain an edge over the United States.
But a sweeping cyberattack by a group known as Salt Typhoon is China’s most ambitious yet, experts and officials have concluded after a year of investigating it. It targeted more than 80 countries and may have stolen information from nearly every American, officials said. They see it as evidence that China’s capabilities rival those of the United States and its allies.
The Salt Typhoon attack was a yearslong, coordinated assault that infiltrated major telecommunications companies and others, investigators said in a highly unusual joint statement last week. The range of the attack was far greater than originally understood, and security officials warned that the stolen data could allow Chinese intelligence services to exploit global communication networks to track targets including politicians, spies and activists.
Hackers sponsored by the Chinese government “are targeting networks globally, including, but not limited to, telecommunications, government, transportation, lodging, and military infrastructure networks,” the statement said.
In a recent interview with Fox News Digital, Pete Nicoletti, chief information security officer at Check Point, warned that those behind the Salt Typhoon cyberattack had “full reign access” to telecommunications data.
Nicoletti noted the unprecedented scale by which the hackers were able to establish a foothold into American utilities and infrastructure, and warned of the very real possibility that the group has remained embedded inside companies and agencies that still haven’t discovered the intrusion.
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