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Title: Canadian Telecom Hacked By Suspected China State Group
Link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/23/2012...
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. ArsTechnica: "The Cyber Centre is aware of
malicious cyber activities currently targeting Canadian telecommunications
companies," officials for the center, the Canadian government's primary cyber
security agency, said in a statement. "The responsible actors are almost
certainly PRC state-sponsored actors, specifically Salt Typhoon." The FBI
issued its own nearly identical statement. Salt Typhoon is the name
researchers and government officials use to track one of several discreet
groups known to hack nations all over the world on behalf of the People's
Republic of China. In October 2023, researchers disclosed that hackers had
backdoored more than 10,000 Cisco devices by exploiting CVE-2023-20198, a
vulnerability with a maximum severity rating of 10. Any switch, router, or
wireless LAN controller running Cisco's iOS XE that had the HTTP or HTTPS
server feature enabled and exposed to the Internet was vulnerable. Cisco
released a security patch about a week after security firm VulnCheck
published its report.
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