Cyber incident board’s Salt Typhoon review to begin within days, CISA leader says

Category	Details
Threat Actors	State-sponsored Chinese group, Salt Typhoon
Campaign Overview	Targeted global telecommunications networks over the past six months, compromising multiple regions and impacting critical infrastructures.
Target Regions (Or Victims)	U.S., Indo-Pacific, Europe, and potentially other countries. High-value targets include government officials, corporate IP, and telecoms.
Methodology	Exploitation of network edge devices to gain and maintain unauthorized access to telecom networks.
Product Targeted	Telecommunications networks and network edge devices.
Malware Reference	Not specifically mentioned in the provided text.
Tools Used	Advanced persistent threat (APT) tools specific to espionage and persistent access.
Vulnerabilities Exploited	Exploitation of insecure configurations and weaknesses in network edge devices.
TTPs	– Network exploitation and persistence. – Data exfiltration for espionage purposes. – Targeted access to communications of high-profile individuals.
Attribution	Chinese government-backed espionage campaign attributed to Salt Typhoon.
Recommendations	1. Strengthen telecommunications security through public-private partnerships. 2. Enhance security configurations, monitoring, and resilience of telecom networks. 3. Implement minimum cybersecurity standards, including multi-factor authentication, anomaly monitoring, and patching.
Source	The Record

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