Canada has joined a dozen allied nations in warning that Chinese state-sponsored cyber actors are compromising networks to support a global espionage system, and in urging telecommunications and critical infrastructure organizations to take steps to mitigate the threat.
The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (Cyber Centre) and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service co-signed an international cyber security advisory released late last month detailing how actors sponsored by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) target telecommunications, government, transportation, lodging, and military infrastructure networks globally.
The advisory, titled “Countering Chinese State-Sponsored Actors Compromise of Networks Worldwide to Feed Global Espionage System,” includes information on a Chinese cyber actor known as Salt Typhoon, which is “almost certainly” behind malicious cyber activities that have targeted Canadian telecommunications companies, according to the Cyber Centre….