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Chinese hackers breached National Guard to steal network configurations
The Chinese state-sponsored hacking group known as Salt Typhoon breached and remained undetected in a U.S. Army National Guard network for nine months in 2024, stealing network configuration files and administrator credentials that could be used to compromise other government networks.
Salt Typhoon is a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group that is believed to be affiliated with China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) intelligence agency. The hacking group has gained notoriety over the past two years for its wave of attacks on telecommunications and broadband providers worldwide, including AT&T, Verizon, Lumen, Charter, Windstream, and Viasat.
The goal of some of these attacks was to gain access to sensitive call logs, private communications, and law-enforcement wiretap systems used by the U.S. government.
National Guard network breached for nine monthsA June 11 Department of Homeland Security memo, first reported by NBC, says that Salt Typhoon breached a U.S. state's Army National Guard network for nine months between March and December 2024.
During this time, the hackers stole network diagrams, configuration files, administrator credentials, and personal information of service members that could be used to breach National Guard and government networks in other states.
[...] China's embassy in Washington did not deny the attack but stated the U.S. had not provided "conclusive and reliable evidence" that Salt Typhoon is linked to the Chinese government.
(Score: 3, Touché) by c0lo on Tuesday July 29 2025, @04:30AM (8 children)
Exactly how are the Chinese? What are you asking?
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(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 29 2025, @04:44AM (1 child)
US government hacking organizations are almost all elite and very much avoid publicity and have a culture of extreme secrecy. China has more mass-produced barely-better-than-script-kiddies who can sometimes get the job done and don't care at all about whether they get found out or not. The low-hanging fruit are plentiful, so that may be the better approach...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 29 2025, @05:34AM
May not be pro but they sure are cost efficient.
Eg doesn't take much to convince some nutty guys to do it for them [myjournalcourier.com]
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 29 2025, @12:15PM (5 children)
OP here: I would've bet $ (AUS) that you wouldn't have gotten the point. Or, like far too many, you're trying to dodge and cloak the issue with your clever language.
"This": aggression, desiring to cause problems, destructive, conquering, domineering, sick obsession with world domination.
Even though I'm a bit of a mutt, I understand nationalism and other forms of unity. But not when it starts to look like Nazism. I mean real Nazis, not the morons who call Trump et al "nazis", Putin saying he's attacking Ukraine to "de-nazify", and other wordsmithing.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday July 29 2025, @03:09PM (3 children)
1. your question was non-specific anyway, nobody rational would have tried to address it as it is
2. I also pointed out that in today's world, state supported hacking is pervasive (even between allies) as a way to gather intelligence non-available otherwise.
I bet $ (USD?) that relatively few Chinese are as described, the issue is they concentrated on the top of political power.
As to why a percentage of humans turn to be socio/psychopaths, do you really expect a simple answer?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 29 2025, @11:11PM (2 children)
I wish I had studied psychology. I would love a better glimpse into brains like yours. My "this" was in reference to, get ready for it, TFA and TFS. Get it now?
No? The "this" is Chinese aggression. Chinese constantly digging, meddling, breaking in, hacking, cracking, malware-izing, ... is that enough? You know, again, what the article and summary are about.
You just like to be very argumentative. You're pretty clever verbally, but that doesn't make you right.
I will agree with your second point. Throughout history a few bad a-holes at the top can cause an amazing amount of destruction and death.
That said, I have direct experience with a Chinese guy who was working in the US in very high-tech / medical software / research. One day he said "we will rule the world" and he meant it. I deem it anti-social on the biggest scale.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday July 30 2025, @12:20AM
That's not Chinese specific, nor "present time" specific. Example [theguardian.com]
You'd be depriving yourself from a larger context if you were to indeed look for an answer to your "evident" question.
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(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday July 30 2025, @12:38AM
Potential explanation or a fragment of such [wikipedia.org] - the treatment they received from Russia after 1945 [wikipedia.org] didn't help.
See also the Chinese take on the specific of face [wikipedia.org] (your rant about "brains like mine" aso, which add nothing to the discussion, may be caused by a similar need of yours. But that's a thing I'll never know, so I won't waste time on it)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 31 2025, @08:06AM
Probably because US politicians and high-ranking military officials and civil servants have been calling them an enemy and talking about the need to fight a war against them for the past decade+ and have been arming Taiwan and training separatists/promoting radical islamist ideologies while doing their best to suppress to country. Do you expect them to bend over and enjoy it?