Sources: China-linked “Salt Typhoon” hacking campaign potentially accessed US wiretap systems after breaching networks of US ISPs like Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen
AT&T, Verizon are among broadband providers breached in China-linked ‘Salt Typhoon’ hack
Wall Street Journal
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- Holy hell. This was inevitable. — Hackers, allegedly Chinese, got into the federally mandated surveillance backdoors of Verizon and AT&T's networks, snooping on everything. — The mandated backdoors were first required on phone systems in 1994 by the CALEA law, then controversially extended to broadband by the FCC in '04. … @ryansingel@writing.exchange · Ryan Singel
- unlike the penetration of SCADA by ‘Volt Typhoon’, apparently focused on depositing capabilities to be utilized later, ‘Salt Typhoon’ seems to have been actively exploited. & no, I do not know enough to make any definitive statements. … @jsonstein@masto.deoan.org · Jeff Sonstein
- This is also *exactly* why we (not that I'd consider myself part of the cryptographic community; the collective “we") will never accept a mandated universal backdoor in end-to-end encrypted private communications. — No one has ever demonstrated that they're capable of holding such a necessarily high level of trust. … @sean@scoat.es · Sean Coates
- There's no such thing as a back door that only the good guys can use. https://mastodon.social/... @maxleibman@beige.party · Max Leibman
- EU is about to follow.on the same path of enabling hostile surveillance, here argued as “but why won't anyone think of the children” #ChatControl regulations. The end result will be effectively the same - critical vulnerabilities in communications infrastructure. — https://mastodon.social/... @osma@mas.to
- The “lawful” intercept systems at AT&T and Verizon were targeted, and possibly breached, in a hack attributed to a Chinese state backed hacking group. — For me this incident just drives the point in that those systems should not exist in the first place. … @HackyScientress@chaos.social · Jenny
- *Now* can we have a sensible conversation about the risks of surveillance systems? — https://mastodon.social/... [No, of course we can't.] @dymaxion@infosec.exchange · Eleanor Saitta
- How many wake up calls do we need? — “officials have been alarmed by alleged efforts by Chinese intelligence officers to burrow … Kevin Fogarty
- It is easy to become numb to the steady pace of breaches. This one seems big. Very big. Stay tuned for coverage from the IAPP in the days ahead... … J. Trevor Hughes
- Did we design our own internet to support China's strategic interests? — If your organization has IT the PRC can leverage, you are a target ... and you'd be surprised by what they can leverage. … Kurt Sanger
Discussion
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@fj@mastodon.social
Frederic Jacobs
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China successfully compromised for months the infrastructure used to do wiretaps on the AT&T and Verizon networks. — This is a huge “told you so” moment for the cryptographic community that has been saying that such infrastructure does present a huge risk to national security. …
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@adamgurri@mastodon.social
Adam Gurri
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For 30 years cryptographers have been telling everyone that this is what would happen if US law enforcement and signals intelligence purposefully created backdoors https://www.wsj.com/...
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@callumj
Callum Jones
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And the government wonders why Apple refused to build back doors.....
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@jchengwsj
Jonathan Cheng
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Verizon, AT&T and Lumen Technologies are among those whose networks were breached, the people said. The widespread compromise is considered a potentially catastrophic security breach and was carried out by a Chinese hacking group dubbed Salt Typhoon. https://www.wsj.com/...
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@profwoodward
Alan Woodward
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The next time someone suggests govt should have a backdoor just show them this story https://www.wsj.com/...
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@chrisrohlf
@chrisrohlf
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You can stack cyber risk management frameworks to the sky if you'd like. But at the end of the day if your adversary has studied your system to the point they know it better than you do, you're going to lose. https://www.wsj.com/...
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@bysarahkrouse
Sarah Krouse
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NEW: A cyberattack tied to the Chinese government penetrated the networks of major U.S. broadband providers and potentially accessed information from systems used for court-authorized wiretapping requests - w/ @dnvolz @aviswanatha @bobmcmillan https://www.wsj.com/...
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@briangobosox
Brian McCarthy
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Damn, apparently China just picked off every federal wiretap request through all the big broadband companies.. Exclusive | U.S. Wiretap Systems Targeted in China-Linked Hack - WSJ https://www.wsj.com/...
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@rondeibert
@rondeibert
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Another reminder that lawful access systems (ie, backdoors) can become major sources of personal & national insecurity China🇨🇳operators penetrated networks of Verizon, AT&T & Lumen Tech @bysarahkrouse @dnvolz @aviswanatha @bobmcmillan https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ
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@jchengwsj
Jonathan Cheng
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For months or longer, the hackers may have held access to network infrastructure used to cooperate with lawful U.S. requests for communications data, say people familiar with the matter. They also had access to other more generic internet traffic. https://www.wsj.com/...
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r/technology
r
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Chinese hackers compromised the same telecom backdoors the FBI and other law enforcement agencies use to monitor Americans for months.
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r/privacy
r
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For months, Chinese hackers compromised the telecom law enforcement interception portals mandated under US law, gaining access to the built …
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r/wallstreetbets
r
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U.S. Wiretap Systems hacked including providers like AT&T and Verizon
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r/cybersecurity
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U.S. Wiretap Systems Targeted in China-Linked Hack
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r/craftofintelligence
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U.S. Wiretap Systems Targeted in China-Linked Hack AT&T and Verizon are among broadband providers breached in China-linked ‘Salt Typhoon’ hack