CISA leads on joint advisory identifying advanced threat from China

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and partners have issued an advisory warning that China-backed threat actors are targeting vulnerabilities in routers used in the telecom and other critical infrastructure sectors, in a campaign that “partially overlaps” with the so-called Salt Typhoon threat.

“Today, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, in coordination with the National Security Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and international partners, released a joint cybersecurity advisory detailing ongoing malicious activity by People’s Republic of China state-sponsored...