FBI seeks more information to identify Salt Typhoon operators with $10 million bounty offered.
The FBI has sought public information that would help identify Chinese state-backed Salt Typhoon hackers.
The FBI has reiterated an up-to $10 million bounty from the U.S. State Department's ‘Rewards for Justice Program’ for any details, that would help in the clampdown of the threat operation, which has targeted telecommunications providers in the U.S. and other parts of the world. In the announcement.
“FBI maintains its commitment to protecting the US telecommunications sector and the individuals and organizations targeted by Salt Typhoon by identifying, mitigating, and disrupting Salt Typhoon's malicious cyber activity,” it said.
Such a development comes after Salt Typhoon was reported by Cisco to have potentially breached U.S. telecommunications firms through a custom JumbledPath tool, reports BleepingComputer.
Chinese cybersecurity firm Sichuan Juxinhe Network Technology has also been sanctioned by the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Control over its direct involvement in the Salt Typhoon attacks.
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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.
