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Salt Typhoon forces FCC's hand on making telcos secure their networks
2024-12-06 18:27

Proposal pushes stricter infosec safeguards after Chinese state baddies expose vulns The head of America's Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wants to force telecoms operators to tighten...

8 US telcos compromised, FBI advises Americans to use encrypted communications
2024-12-05 12:18

FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) officials have advised Americans to use encrypted call and messaging apps to protect their communications from threat actors that...

White House: Salt Typhoon hacked telcos in dozens of countries
2024-12-04 23:00

​Chinese state hackers, known as Salt Typhoon, have breached telecommunications companies in dozens of countries, President Biden's deputy national security adviser Anne Neuberger said today. [...]

Salt Typhoon's surge extends far beyond US telcos
2024-11-27 23:44

Plus, a brand-new backdoor, GhostSpider, is linked to the cyber-spy crew's operations The reach of the China-linked Salt Typhoon gang extends beyond American telecommunications giants, and its...

Salt Typhoon hackers backdoor telcos with new GhostSpider malware
2024-11-25 16:12

The Chinese state-sponsored hacking group Salt Typhoon has been observed utilizing a new "GhostSpider" backdoor in attacks against telecommunication service providers. [...]

China has utterly pwned 'thousands and thousands' of devices at US telcos
2024-11-25 13:15

Senate Intelligence Committee chair says his 'hair is on fire' as execs front the White House The Biden administration on Friday hosted telco execs to chat about China's recent attacks on the...

Reminder: China-backed crews compromised 'multiple' US telcos in 'significant cyber espionage campaign'
2024-11-14 01:54

Feds don't name Salt Typhoon, but describe Beijing band's alleged deeds The US government has confirmed there was "a broad and significant cyber espionage campaign" conducted by China-linked...

Indian telcos to cut off scammy, spammy, telemarketers for two whole years
2024-08-14 06:29

There's a blockchain involved so it's totally going to stop you getting those calls India’s Telecom Regulatory Authority (TRAI) on Tuesday directed telcos to stop calls from unregistered...

FCC gets tough: Telcos must now tell you when your personal info is stolen
2024-02-12 18:45

As the FCC planned, the new rule also eliminates the mandatory seven-day waiting period for reporting break-ins to consumers. "Without an FCC rule requiring breach notifications for the above categories of PII, there would be no requirement in Federal law that telecommunications carriers report non-CPNI breaches to their customers," the FCC said of the new rule.

Turkish hackers Sea Turtle expand attacks to Dutch ISPs, telcos
2024-01-08 20:38

The Turkish state-backed cyber espionage group tracked as Sea Turtle has been carrying out multiple spying campaigns in the Netherlands, focusing on telcos, media, internet service providers, and Kurdish websites. Previously, Sea Turtle, also known as Teal Kurma and Cosmic Wolf, focused on the Middle Eastern region, as well as Sweden and the United States, using techniques like DNS hijacking and traffic redirection to perform man-in-the-middle attacks against government and non-government organizations, media, ISPs, and IT service providers.