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On Mon, the Santa Clara, CA-based company published a blog post about the problem, saying that it had issued a patch & that “impacted customers failed to implement system hardening & #firewall guidelines.”

#Lumen wrote that it located #malware inside #ISP routers serving certain groups or individual customers that could intercept passwords from those customers. Lumen said it believed the malicious #software was being used by #VoltTyphoon.

#InfoSec #espionage #security #China #US #geopolitics

#security #software #infosec #China #us #malware #geopolitics #espionage #firewall #ISP #lumen #volttyphoon

In a separate report earlier this month, #security company #Volexity said it had found another high-end technique in play at a different, unnamed #ISP. In that case, it said a Chinese state #hacking group distinct from #VoltTyphoon was able to get far enough inside the service provider to alter #DNS web addresses that users were trying to reach & divert them elsewhere, allowing the #hackers to insert #backdoors for #espionage.

#InfoSec #Internet #tech #cybersecurity #China #US #geopolitics
#internet #security #infosec #Hacking #China #cybersecurity #tech #us #hackers #dns #geopolitics #espionage #ISP #volttyphoon #volexity #backdoors

Though there is no evidence that the new inroads are aimed at anything other than gathering #intelligence, some of the techniques & resources employed are associated w/those used in the past year by a #China-backed group known as #VoltTyphoon…. #US intelligence ofcls said that group sought access to equipment at Pacific #ports & other #infrastructure to enable China to sow #panic & #disrupt America’s ability to move #troops, #weaponry & supplies to #Taiwan if armed conflict breaks out.
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#security #China #us #Intelligence #taiwan #infrastructure #Panic #volttyphoon #ports #disrupt #troops #weaponry

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