FBI official calls actions 'reckless and unbounded.'
The China-linked APT group Salt Typhoon potentially pilfered nearly all Americans' data as part of a cyberespionage campaign that has been ongoing since 2019.
The Register reports that FBI Cyber Division deputy assistant director Michael Machtinger said that millions of individuals across the U.S. already had bulk information obtained by Salt Typhoon from its attacks against nearly 200 American organisations, but even more extensive data had been exfiltrated from high-profile officials
"What this really underscores is that what the PRC is doing through these proxy actors is really reckless and unbounded, in a way that is significantly outside of the norms of what we see in the espionage space - and that should really set off alarm bells for us — not only in the United States," said Machtinger.
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Dan Raywood is a B2B journalist with 25 years of experience, including covering cybersecurity for the past 17 years. He has extensively covered topics from Advanced Persistent Threats and nation-state hackers to major data breaches and regulatory changes.
He has spoken at events including 44CON, Infosecurity Europe, RANT Forum, BSides Scotland, Steelcon and the National Cyber Security Show, and served as editor of SC Media UK, Infosecurity Magazine and IT Security Guru. He was also an analyst with 451 Research and a product marketing lead at Tenable.
