Canada says telcos were breached in China-linked espionage hacks

The Canadian government and the FBI say that they are aware of malicious activities targeting telecommunications companies across Canada, attributing intrusions to the piracy supported by China Salt typhoon.

In A joint opinion Friday eveningsaid the federal government said that at least an anonymous Canadian telecommunications had been hacked in mid-February this year, in which hackers have manipulated three routers manufactured by Cisco to allow a stealth trafficking of its network.

The federals say that separate surveys suggest that targeting the typhoon of salt is “wider than the telecommunications sector”.

Typhoon of salt, active since at least the end of 2024, previously Targeted American phone giants and Internet suppliersand more recently Datacenter hostsAs part of a large espionage campaign to collect information on senior American officials. Salt Typhoon is one of the many hacking groups linked to China thought to prepare So that China is launching a Taiwan potential future invasion by 2027.

The Canadian-FBI’s spouse’s Advisory said that the pirates persisted “which” would almost persist “in targeting Canadian organizations” over the next two years “.