Suspected Salt Typhoon snoops lurking in European telco's network

China's Salt Typhoon gang appears to have successfully attacked a European telecommunications firm, according to security researchers at Darktrace. Salt Typhoon is an espionage gang linked to the People's Republic of China that hacked America's major telecommunications firms and stole metadata and other information belonging …

[Swedish Chef]

Scope of attack

So, this was the one attack that the people in charge are reasonably confident has been detected and thwarted.

If I don't get my state-sponsored groups confused, Salt Typhoon are not known for single, small-scale attacks.

It would be interesting to know how many telcos use similar hardware with the same vulnerabilities but less attentive/lucky IT people.

[Anonymous Coward]

and yet Governments want us to disable encryption

I have no doubt the Government will introduce restrictions on what ISP Review refers to as XXXs, not least to ban remote working for teenagers. At the same time, we have state-sponsored hackers breaching our comms infrastructure monitoring our traffic.