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Nation-State Attacker of Telecommunications Networks

Schneier on Security

Someone has been hacking telecommunications networks around the world: LightBasin (aka UNC1945) is an activity cluster that has been consistently targeting the telecommunications sector at a global scale since at least 2016, leveraging custom tools and an in-depth knowledge of telecommunications network architectures.

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U.S. Confirms Chinese Hackers Compromised Telecommunications Networks

SecureWorld News

telecommunications infrastructure. We have identified that PRC-affiliated actors have compromised networks at multiple telecommunications companies to enable the theft of customer call records data," CISA and the FBI explained in the joint release​. The compromised data also included information acquired by U.S.

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Chinese Cyber Espionage Campaign Targeting U.S. Telecommunications

SecureWorld News

telecommunications networks and other organizations. Critical infrastructure at risk : Telecommunications networks and organizations with global footprints are prime targets for intelligence-gathering campaigns. Recent disclosures from U.S.

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Arguing Against CALEA

Schneier on Security

Compromising our telecommunications infrastructure is now little different from performing any other kind of computer intrusion or data breach, a well-known and endemic cybersecurity problem. This has greatly expanded the “attack surface” that must be defended to prevent unauthorized wiretaps, especially at scale.

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Earth Kurma APT is actively targeting government and telecommunications orgs in Southeast Asia

Security Affairs

Earth Kurma APT carried out a sophisticated campaign against government and telecommunications sectors in Southeast Asia. Organizations face potential compromise of sensitive government and telecommunications data, the researchers speculate the attackers maintained prolonged, undetected access to their networks.

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European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) suffered a data breach

Security Affairs

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) disclosed a data breach, threat actors had access to a database of its users. Threat actors stole a database containing the list of users of the portal of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute ( ETSI ).

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State-sponsored Chinese threat actors compromise telecommunications and network services providers

Tech Republic Security

The post State-sponsored Chinese threat actors compromise telecommunications and network services providers appeared first on TechRepublic. Threat actors originating from the People's Republic of China are exploiting known vulnerabilities to build a broad network infrastructure of compromised machines worldwide.