A cyberattack tied to the Chinese government penetrated the networks of a swath of U.S. broadband providers, potentially accessing information from systems the federal government uses for court ...

Both the Post and WSJ reports say it's possible that US wiretapping systems were penetrated but that it hasn't yet been proven. "There is some indication [the lawful intercept system] was targeted ...

Chinese hackers accessed the networks of US broadband providers and obtained information from systems that the federal government uses for court-authorized wiretapping, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) ...

On Wednesday, the US government confirmed that Chinese hackers breached several US telecommunications service providers. The threat actors compromised wiretap systems used for law enforcement ...

China-linked hackers reportedly managed to sneak into a US telecommunications surveillance system network for 18 months undetected and amass data on over 1 million people, with the full extent of ...

Noting the apparent hacking of systems for court-ordered wiretap requests, Schneier called it "one more example of a backdoor access mechanism being targeted by the 'wrong' eavesdroppers." 1994 ...

In late September 2024, Salt Typhoon targeted several US internet service providers in a reconnaissance scan that is believed to assist in vulnerability hunting for potential use in later attacks.

US Intelligence Agency Recommends Switching Multifactor Authentication Methods ... Krouse, Sarah, et al. "U.S. Wiretap Systems Targeted in China-Linked Hack." Wall Street Journal, ...

The U.S. government has confirmed that hackers with links to China breached multiple U.S. telecommunication service providers to access the wiretap systems used by law enforcement to surveil ...

U.S. Wiretap Systems Targeted in China-Linked Hack. AT&T and Verizon are among the broadband providers that were breached. By . Sarah Krouse, Dustin Volz, Aruna Viswanatha. and . Robert McMillan.