Advanced Persistent Threat Group
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Active since 2022, still embedded in US telecom networks as of late 2024
Chinese hackers have burrowed deep into America's power grids, water systems, telecommunications networks, and transportation infrastructure—not to steal secrets, but to flip a kill switch. The Pentagon's December 2024 report confirms Beijing expects to fight and win a war over Taiwan by 2027.
Updated 2 hours ago
Active and expanding operations
Salt Typhoon, a hacking group tied to China's Ministry of State Security, spent years quietly burrowing into American telecommunications networks — AT&T, Verizon, and at least seven others — accessing the systems that carry out court-authorized wiretaps. Now it has reached the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) itself. On April 1, 2026, the FBI classified a breach of its Digital Collection System Network, the internal platform managing surveillance operations under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), as a 'major incident' — the most serious cybersecurity designation available under federal law. It is the first time the bureau has made that determination about its own systems since at least 2020.
Updated Apr 2
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