Three months after reports of a cyberattack called Salt Typhoon targeting Internet service providers and U.S. wiretapping infrastructure, two of the largest telecommunications companies are making progress in protecting their networks from the threat. It was announced that it had achieved this.
AT&T and Verizon released their first statements about the Salt Typhoon since working with federal law enforcement and other agencies over the weekend. AT&T said in a statement that its findings showed China had targeted “a small number of individuals with foreign intelligence interests” and that the company was committed to protecting customer data.
Meanwhile, Verizon said it had “contained the cyber incident caused by this nation-state threat actor” and had “not detected any threat actor activity” on its network for some time. It added that a third-party security company confirmed the blockade.
In late September and early October, reports first described the Salt Typhoon attack, which led the FBI to warn that some types of messaging, such as RCS text messaging between iOS and Android phones, could be dangerous.
Despite hundreds of millions of customers putting their data and privacy at risk, Salt Typhoon appears to be a more targeted attack than previously thought.
“In this incident, a small number of high-profile government and political customers were targeted by attackers,” Verizon said in a statement. “The customer has been notified of this activity.”
Both Verizon and AT&T said they have formed partnerships with government and law enforcement agencies, telecommunications industry partners, and private cybersecurity companies.
AT&T said, “We have complied with our notification obligations in the relatively few cases where an individual’s information has been affected.”
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