“We have not detected threat actor activity on Verizon’s network for some time, and after doing considerable work on this incident, we can report that Verizon has contained the activities associated with this particular incident. “-Verizon
back in October, wall street journal It is reported that telecommunication carriers such as AT&T And Verizon Salt was the victim of Typhoon Group attacks and the hackers were able to access a system used by the federal government for court-authorized network wiretapping. On Friday, the White House said nine telecommunications companies were hacked by a Chinese state-funded hacking operation.
Some of the information from some of the carriers that the Salt Typhoon hackers were able to infiltrate was metadata related to a large number of US users. This metadata included parts of text messages, communication logs, and small portions of audio from voice calls. The Chinese government has denied any involvement in the Salt Typhoon attacks.
AT&T said, “We have not detected any activity by nation-state actors across our networks at this time.” “Based on our ongoing investigation of this attack, the People’s Republic of China targeted certain individuals of foreign intelligence interest. In the relatively few instances in which an individual’s information was affected, we complied with our notification obligations in cooperation with law enforcement.” Have done.”-AT&T
The Biden administration recently held a closed-door meeting with industry members to discuss how to handle vulnerabilities that could be exploited by hackers. CEO John Stankey was present at the meeting AT&TThe US government says it does not know how many Americans were targeted in the attack and that it is impossible to know when the Salt Typhoon attackers will be completely removed from the US telecommunications system. having a network related to AT&T, Verizonand possibly T Mobile All is clear a good start.
