The Salt Typhoon cyber espionage group compromised a US state's National Guard network, breaching it from March 2024 to December 2024. They accessed sensitive data, including administrator credentials and configuration files for critical national infrastructure and state agencies. The compromised data has the potential to facilitate further cyber intrusions. Between January 2023 and March 2024, Salt Typhoon stole thousands of configuration files related to multiple US government and critical national infrastructure entities. This incident raises concerns over the security of critical infrastructure and ongoing cyber threats.
"This data also included these networks' administrator credentials and network diagrams - which could be used to facilitate follow-on Salt Typhoon hacks of these units."
"Salt Typhoon has previously used exfiltrated network configuration files to 'enable cyber intrusion elsewhere'."
"Between January 2023 and March 2024, it stole 1,462 configuration files associated with 70 US government and CNI identities spanning 12 sectors."
"Salt Typhoon's success could undermine local cybersecurity efforts to protect critical infrastructure."
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