Security News > 2024 > November > Chinese Hackers Exploit T-Mobile and Other U.S. Telecoms in Broader Espionage Campaign
2024-11-19 07:02
U.S. telecoms giant T-Mobile has confirmed that it was also among the companies that were targeted by Chinese threat actors to gain access to valuable information. The adversaries, tracked as Salt Typhoon, breached the company as part of a "monthslong campaign" designed to harvest cellphone communications of "high-value intelligence targets." It's not clear what information was taken, if any,
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