{"id":16861,"date":"2024-12-12T17:39:17","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T16:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/12\/why-did-china-hack-the-worlds-phone-networks\/"},"modified":"2024-12-12T17:39:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T16:39:17","slug":"why-did-china-hack-the-worlds-phone-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/12\/why-did-china-hack-the-worlds-phone-networks\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did China hack the world\u2019s phone networks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Salt Typhoon breached dozens of telecoms around the world<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/2022\/sep\/20\/sign-up-for-the-techscape-newsletter-our-free-technology-email\">Don\u2019t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chinese hackers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/dec\/04\/chinese-hackers-american-cell-phones\">have breached dozens of telecommunications companies<\/a> around the world. The breach, christened Salt Typhoon by Microsoft cybersecurity researchers, has afforded the cybercriminals unprecedented access not only to information on who has been texting or calling whom and when, but also on the contents of some messages, a much higher technical bar to clear in a cyber-attack.<\/p>\n<p>The cyber-attack hit three of the largest telecommunications networks in the US. The communications of government officials in Washington DC have been intercepted, as have internet browsing records kept by the same telecommunications companies. The hackers attempted and may have succeeded to crack the phones of Donald Trump and JD Vance as well as Kamala Harris\u2019s campaign staff. Even the US\u2019s wiretapping program was breached; call records stored there were stolen. A US senator called it the \u201cworst telecom hack in our nation\u2019s history\u201d. The same week, UK telecom giant BT <a href=\"https:\/\/therecord.media\/bt-group-cyberattack-black-basta\">announced<\/a> it had endured \u201can attempt to compromise\u201d its conferencing service and circumvented it.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/dec\/09\/why-did-china-hack-the-worlds-phone-networks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c8a28f4228afa6ed68ad70d2261b9faa9ccbea5f\/0_170_5123_3075\/master\/5123.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d4dc648c2ceefdb8012f22b9386413a4\" title=\"Why did China hack the world\u2019s phone networks?\" \/>Salt Typhoon breached dozens of telecoms around the world<br \/>\nDon\u2019t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<br \/>\nChinese hackers have breached dozens of telecommunications companies around the world. The breach, christened Salt Typhoon by Microsoft cybersecurity researchers, has afforded the cybercriminals unprecedented access not only to information on who has been texting or calling whom and when, but also on the contents of some messages, a much higher technical bar to clear in a cyber-attack.<br \/>\nThe cyber-attack hit three of the largest telecommunications networks in the US. The communications of government officials in Washington DC have been intercepted, as have internet browsing records kept by the same telecommunications companies. The hackers attempted and may have succeeded to crack the phones of Donald Trump and JD Vance as well as Kamala Harris\u2019s campaign staff. Even the US\u2019s wiretapping program was breached; call records stored there were stolen. A US senator called it the \u201cworst telecom hack in our nation\u2019s history\u201d. The same week, UK telecom giant BT announced it had endured \u201can attempt to compromise\u201d its conferencing service and circumvented it. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salt Typhoon breached dozens of telecoms around the world Don\u2019t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Chinese hackers have breached dozens of telecommunications companies around the world. The breach, christened Salt Typhoon by Microsoft cybersecurity researchers, has afforded the cybercriminals unprecedented access not only to information on who has been texting or &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/12\/why-did-china-hack-the-worlds-phone-networks\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why did China hack the world\u2019s phone networks?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16861"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}