Re: Chairman of Senate Intelligence Committee calls salt typhoon "worst telecom hack in our nation's history"

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

On Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 3:57 AM Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke () gmail com> wrote:
> Re: compromise of lawful intercept / CALEA related features:

Uhm, which of course 'no one saw coming'...

> https://archive.is/jZt59
>
> Original URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/11/21/salt-typhoon-china-hack-telecom/
>
> The hackers, part of a group dubbed Salt Typhoon, have been able to listen in on audio calls in real time and have in 
> some cases moved from one telecom network to another, exploiting relationships of “trust,” said Sen. Mark R. Warner 
> (D-Virginia), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and a former telecom venture capitalist. Warner added 
> that intruders are still in the networks.

also, this very same thing played out a tad smaller (maybe? no one
really fessed up) in ~2002-3?
admittedly the person that MAY NOT have just been a patsy for some
other larger thing (nation-state-actor) but.. we probably won't know.