Salt Typhoon hacks declared national security crisis

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International intelligence agencies have issued an urgent alert regarding the Salt Typhoon cyber campaign, believed to be perpetrated by Chinese state-sponsored hackers .

In a joint advisory with other agencies, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency declared the threat posed by Salt Typhoon hackers as a national defence crisis, impacting core infrastructure that carries global web traffic.

It is believed that the Salt Typhoon campaign has compromised critical telecommunications networks for the purpose of cyber espionage and disruption, while defence contractors may also be at risk.

“People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-sponsored cyber threat actors are targeting networks globally, inc