Security News > 2020 > March > Telecom Sector Increasingly Targeted by Chinese Hackers: CrowdStrike

Threat actors linked to China increasingly targeted the telecommunications sector in 2019, according to endpoint security firm CrowdStrike.

In the case of the telecom sector, many of the attacks were attributed to China-linked hacker groups, including the ones tracked as Wicked Panda, Emissary Panda, and Lotus Panda.

CrowdStrike has also seen some attacks on telecom organizations that could not be attributed to a known threat actor, but which "Appear to support China's efforts against this sector."

"Incidents from 2019 include multiple compromises of telecom companies in Asia, showing a continued interest in regional neighbors. While these incidents may also support traditional or economic espionage goals, open-source reporting from September 2019 claimed that some targeted intrusions against telecoms were used by China to track Uyghurs in Central and Southeast Asia. This activity reportedly targeted telecom operators in Turkey, Kazakhstan, India, Thailand and Malaysia - mirroring the observed target scope for tracked Chinese adversaries," CrowdStrike said in its report.

In addition to the telecom sector, Chinese threat actors have launched many attacks on organizations in the healthcare sector as part of corporate espionage campaigns, as well as the government and defense sectors of regional neighbors.

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