Verticals Targeted: Telecommunications Regions Targeted: Europe Related Families: SNAPPYBEE (Deed RAT) Executive Summary Salt Typhoon, a China-linked advanced persistent threat (APT) group, has been targeting global critical infrastructure using sophisticated tactics like DLL sideloading and zero-day exploits. Recent activity targeted a European telecommunications entity.| PolySwarm Main Blog
Salt Typhoon is a Chinese state-sponsored cyber threat group aligned with the Ministry of State Security (MSS), specializing in long-term espionage operations targeting global telecommunications infrastructure. Active since at least 2019, Salt Typhoon has demonstrated advanced capabilities in exploiting network edge devices, establishing deep persistence, and harvesting sensitive communications metadata, VoIP configurations, lawful intercept data, and subscriber profiles from telecom provider...| DomainTools Investigations | DTI
Beware of “blame the vendor” distractions. https://bsky.app/profile/rgblights.bsky.social/post/3ltshf3lvc22e Rob Joyce posted this on his BlueSky account as a response to Alexander Martin’s article, “Spain awards Huawei contracts to manage intelligence agency wiretaps.” Both Rob and Alex are exasperating “blame the vendor” fears when the real problem is more systemic, with nothing to do with which world Read More| SENKI
China’s state-sponsored cyber operations, driven by groups like Volt Typhoon, Salt Typhoon, Brass Typhoon, and APT41, and amplified by techniques like Fast Flux DNS, are not chasing Hollywood apocalypse—they’re seizing America’s networks, turning our infrastructure into a weapon against us.| MixMode