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China-linked group Salt Typhoon breached satellite firm Viasat
- China-linked APT group Salt Typhoon hacked satellite firm Viasat and had breached multiple telecom providers previously.
- Viasat, a global communications company based in Carlsbad, California, discovered the intrusion earlier this year.
- No evidence found that Viasat customers were affected by the breach.
- The Salt Typhoon group targeted more US telecoms, including Charter Communications and Windstream, exploiting vulnerabilities in network devices.
- In response to the cyber espionage, the US, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand issued a joint advisory warning about PRC-linked threats.
- Recorded Future's Insikt Group reported ongoing attacks by Salt Typhoon on telecom providers globally by exploiting Cisco vulnerabilities.
- Cisco's zero-day vulnerabilities, CVE-2023-20198 and CVE-2023-20273, were actively exploited by Salt Typhoon for network breaches.
- Insikt Group recommended promptly patching Cisco IOS XE devices to prevent further exploitation by Salt Typhoon.
- Salt Typhoon, previously known as FamousSparrow and GhostEmperor, has been active targeting government entities and telecom companies since at least 2019.
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