{"id":1674,"date":"2025-06-24T10:36:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T10:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tsfactory.com\/forums\/?p=1674"},"modified":"2025-06-24T10:36:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T10:36:00","slug":"chinas-salt-typhoon-hackers-target-canadian-telecom-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tsfactory.com\/forums\/blog\/chinas-salt-typhoon-hackers-target-canadian-telecom-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Salt Typhoon Hackers Target Canadian Telecom Firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security and the FBI have issued a warning over hacker attacks conducted by Chinese state-sponsored threat actors against telecommunication companies in Canada.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The warning focuses on attacks conducted by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/topics\/salt-typhoon\/\">Salt Typhoon<\/a>, the threat group known for targeting several major\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/topics\/telecoms\/\">telecom<\/a>\u00a0firms in the United States and elsewhere as part of espionage operations.<\/p>\n<p>In some cases, the hackers managed to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/cisa-fbi-confirm-china-hacked-telecoms-providers-for-spying\/\">steal call records<\/a>\u00a0and private communications belonging to valuable targets, including government employees and political figures.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian cybersecurity agency said it\u2019s aware of recent attacks likely conducted by Salt Typhoon against telecommunication organizations in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThree network devices registered to a Canadian telecommunications company were compromised by likely Salt Typhoon actors in mid-February 2025,\u201d the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe actors exploited CVE-2023-20198 to retrieve the running configuration files from all three devices and modified at least one of the files to configure a GRE tunnel, enabling traffic collection from the network,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>CVE-2023-20198 is a Cisco device vulnerability that has also been exploited by Salt Typhoon to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/cisco-details-salt-typhoon-network-hopping-credential-theft-tactics\/\">hack into the networks of US telcos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian agency also pointed out that separate investigations found evidence of Salt Typhoon attacks aimed at entities outside of the telecom sector.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/chinas-salt-typhoon-hackers-target-canadian-telecom-firms\/\">Read the Full Story Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Security Week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security and the FBI have issued a warning over hacker attacks conducted by Chinese state-sponsored threat actors against telecommunication companies in Canada. 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