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The reported scope of the Salt Typhoon hacks has expanded in recent days and weeks, from the incoming president to top U.S. officials.
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U.S. authorities said they are investigating “unauthorized access to telecommunications infrastructure” by hackers linked to China.
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Malicious hackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Versa Director, a software product used by many Internet and IT service providers. Researchers believe the activity is linked to Volt Typhoon, a Chinese cyber espionage group focused on infiltrating critical U.S. networks and laying the groundwork for the ability to disrupt communications between the United States and Asia during any future armed conflict with China. Continue reading New 0-Day Attacks Linked to China’s ‘Volt Typhoon’
Lumen Technologies, an American company that operates one of the largest Internet backbones and carries a significant percentage of the world’s Internet traffic, said today it will stop routing traffic for organizations based in Russia. Lumen’s decision comes just days after a similar exit by backbone provider Cogent, and amid a news media crackdown in Russia that has already left millions of Russians in the dark about what is really going on with their president’s war in Ukraine. Continue reading Internet Backbone Giant Lumen Shuns .RU
Imagine being able to disconnect or redirect Internet traffic destined for some of the world’s largest companies — just by spoofing an email. This is the nature of a threat vector recently removed by a Fortune 500 firm that operates one of the world’s largest Internet backbones. Continue reading The Internet is Held Together With Spit & Baling Wire