Happy Friday, the 13th (why does no one ever say that?) Let’s dig in:
WORSE THAN ‘SALT TYPHOON’?: You know a cyber attack is pretty bad when six months after the U.S. government discovers it, they still can’t get the hackers out of the hacked systems. This is the case with ‘Salt Typhoon’, a cyber breach aimed at U.S. private sector telecommunications companies, first brought to the attention of the U.S. Government by Microsoft, according to NSA Director General Timothy Haugh. Beijing is widely believed to be behind the breach but the headline here might just be the answer that Haugh gave under questioning by New York Times reporter David Sanger when he said that ‘Salt Typhoon’ is not the ‘highest-end operation we’ve seen’. Uh, care to elaborate? In case we’re not reading between the lines quite enough, CISA Director Jen Easterly told The Cipher Brief‘s Cyber Initiatives Group this week that Chinese attacks on U.S. infrastructure are the ‘tip of the iceberg’… We’re not exactly alarmist here at the Dead Drop, but maybe it’s time we started paying closer attention?
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