According to the journal, citing experts and officials who examined Salt Typhoon for a year, their cyber attack was the most serious that has been discovered until now. It was to last for years, embrace over 80 countries and lead to storage of data from almost all Americans.
Joint statement of the services. Signed AW and SKW
The newspaper draws attention to the “very unusual” joint statement in this matter, which was signed by the American National Security Agency (Supreme Administrative Court) together with services from several other countries, including the Polish Intelligence Agency (AW) and the Military Counterintelligence Service (SKW).
The statement and the report attached to him warned that the attack, about which reports appeared a year ago, turned out to be much broader than supplied. The aim of the Chinese activities was to steal information from government systems, telecommunications, transport networks, hotels or military infrastructure for the needs of creating a global spy system.
The Chinese could listen to Donald Trump's conversations?
These data could allow Chinese services, including to follow politicians, spies or activists. Among the goals were, among others Phones of Donald Trump and vice president of JD Vance, as well as Democrat politicians. According to Senator Marek Warner, deputy head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Chinese services could listen to telephone conversations and read uncomfortable SMSs.
The Chinese came in, among others to the systems of several Internet providers and telecommunications networks.
According to the American official cited by the newspaper, the attack shows that Beijing's abilities in cyberspace are matched by the US and their allies.
Officials conducting the investigation in the case associated the Salt Typhoon attack with at least three Chinese technology companies that have been active since at least 2019, although the operation was discovered only a year ago. These companies worked for the Chinese intelligence, civil and military services.
“Considering the width of this campaign, I can't imagine preventing any American to protect her,” said former FBI Cynthia Kaiser clerk, who supervised the investigation in the Salt Typhoon case.
