US EditionCanadian Telecom Hacked by Suspected China State Group
CANADA, JUN 23 – Salt Typhoon exploited a critical Cisco vulnerability to access three network devices and collect telecom traffic as part of a global espionage campaign, officials said.
- In mid-February 2025, the Canadian Centre for Cybersecurity confirmed that the Salt Typhoon hacking group compromised three network devices of a Canadian telecommunications provider.
- This breach occurred after hackers exploited the critical Cisco flaw CVE-2023-20198, which had a patch available since October 2023, and the actors modified router configurations to enable stealthy traffic collection.
- Salt Typhoon, linked to the Chinese government, has targeted multiple US and Canadian telecom firms in a broad espionage campaign aiming to collect intelligence on government communications and related data.
- The Cyber Centre cautioned that Canadian organizations can expect ongoing cyberattacks throughout the next two years and advised critical infrastructure sectors to enhance their cybersecurity measures.
- The ongoing campaign suggests persistent risk to telecommunications and other sectors in Canada, highlighting significant vulnerabilities despite prior patch availability and earlier reconnaissance activities detected in late 2024.
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Hackers suspected of working on behalf of the Chinese government exploited a maximum-severity vulnerability, which had received a patch 16 months earlier, to compromise a telecommunications provider in Canada, officials from that country and the US said Monday. “The Cyber Centre is aware of malicious cyber activities currently targeting Canadian telecommunications companies,” officials for the center, the Canadian government’s primary cybersecur…
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