{"id":212673,"date":"2025-04-29T01:28:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T06:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/fbi-seeks-help-to-unmask-salt-typhoon-hackers-behind-telecom-breaches"},"modified":"2025-04-29T01:28:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T06:28:27","slug":"fbi-seeks-help-to-unmask-salt-typhoon-hackers-behind-telecom-breaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/fbi-seeks-help-to-unmask-salt-typhoon-hackers-behind-telecom-breaches","title":{"rendered":"FBI seeks help to unmask Salt Typhoon hackers behind telecom breaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fbi-seeks-help-to-unmask-salt-typhoon-hackers-behind-telecom-breaches.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The FBI has asked the public for information on Chinese Salt Typhoon hackers behind widespread breaches of telecommunications providers in the United States and worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>In October, the FBI and CISA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/us-says-chinese-hackers-breached-multiple-telecom-providers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">confirmed<\/a> that the Chinese state hackers had breached multiple telecom providers (including AT&amp;T, Verizon, Lumen, Charter Communications, Consolidated Communications, and Windstream) and many other telecom companies in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/white-house-salt-typhoon-hacked-telcos-in-dozens-of-countries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dozens of countries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As revealed at the time, while they had access to the U.S. telecoms\u2019 networks, the attackers also accessed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/atandt-verizon-reportedly-hacked-to-target-us-govt-wiretapping-platform\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">U.S. law enforcement\u2019s wiretapping platform<\/a> and gained access to the \u201cprivate communications\u201d of a \u201climited number\u201d of U.S. government officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI has asked the public for information on Chinese Salt Typhoon hackers behind widespread breaches of telecommunications providers in the United States and worldwide. In October, the FBI and CISA confirmed that the Chinese state hackers had breached multiple telecom providers (including AT&amp;T, Verizon, Lumen, Charter Communications, Consolidated Communications, and Windstream) and many other [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,1493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-law-enforcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212673","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}