{"id":140442,"date":"2022-06-12T09:07:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T14:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/chinese-hackers-breach-major-telecoms-firms-us-says"},"modified":"2022-06-12T09:07:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T14:07:44","slug":"chinese-hackers-breach-major-telecoms-firms-us-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/chinese-hackers-breach-major-telecoms-firms-us-says","title":{"rendered":"Chinese hackers breach \u2018major\u2019 telecoms firms, US says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinese-hackers-breach-major-telecoms-firms-us-says2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chinese government-backed hackers have breached \u201cmajor telecommunications companies,\u201d among a range of targets worldwide, by exploiting known software flaws in routers and other popular network networking gear, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisa.gov\/uscert\/ncas\/alerts\/aa22-158a\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\">US security agencies warned<\/a> Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[T]hese devices are often overlooked by cyber defenders, who struggle to maintain and keep pace with routine software patching of Internet-facing services and endpoint devices,\u201d says the advisory from the FBI, the National Security Agency and US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.<\/p>\n<p>The agencies\u2019 statement did not identify the victims of the hacking; the advisory was aimed at defensive measures to help organizations running the devices made by Cisco, Fortinet and other vendors, shore up their networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese government-backed hackers have breached \u201cmajor telecommunications companies,\u201d among a range of targets worldwide, by exploiting known software flaws in routers and other popular network networking gear, US security agencies warned Tuesday. \u201c[T]hese devices are often overlooked by cyber defenders, who struggle to maintain and keep pace with routine software patching of Internet-facing services and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1490,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-government","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}