Canadian Telecom Hacked by Suspected China State Group

Top Canadian telecom firms may have been hit by Chinese Salt Typhoon hackers

Hackers have seemingly used a Cisco flaw to gain access to telco network.

China Behind Recent Cyberattacks on Canada’s Telecom Companies: Canadian Security Agency and FBI Investigation

Chinese state-linked cyber threat actors were responsible for recent attacks on Canadian telecommunications companies, according to Canada’s cybersecurity agency and the U.S. intelligence and security service. The incidents are part of a global cyber espionage campaign aimed at gathering intelligence data. The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security and the FBI warned Canadians of the risks posed by state-sponsored cyber actors from the People’s Repu…

Canada says telcos were breached in China-linked espionage hacks

Salt Typhoon previously hacked phone and telco giants across the United States. The feds say that separate investigations suggest that Salt Typhoon's targeting is "broader than just the telecommunications sector."

Canadian telecom hacked by suspected China state group

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…

Canada says Salt Typhoon hacked telecom firm via Cisco flaw

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security and the FBI confirm that the Chinese state-sponsored 'Salt Typhoon' hacking group is also targeting Canadian telecommunication firms, breaching a telecom provider in February.

FBI and Canadian officials issue joint cyberattack warning

At the end of last week, a joint statement from the governments of Canada and the United States of America appeared, warning of a serious hacker attack. The target was telecoms in Canada, and the Chinese hacker group known as Salt Typhoon is allegedly behind everything. According to the report, the attackers managed to break into three Cisco routers back in February of this year. Thus, without being noticed, they monitored traffic within the int…