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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 29 2025, @12:27PM
OP here, wow, thank you, extremely good post! Makes really good sense, and there's optimism and hope for the future. That maybe people will become more awakened and realize there's no long-term good coming from being so aggressively destructive. For example I hope they all chill out about Taiwan (which is obviously a huge factor in their aggression (stupidly)).
As a US male, single, some years ago I started noticing the various "mail order bride" websites. I never pursued any, and largely because a good friend who has lived in many parts of the world, including Russia and other ex-Soviet countries, strongly warned me about how they grew up having to be very aggressive just to survive. But also learning how to be very verbally clever, sneaky, and manipulative.
Sure enough, another friend found and married a Russian woman and shortly after the marriage and her US citizenship, she "took him to the cleaners". One of her many tactics, that's far too easy and prevalent, was to lie in court saying he beat her. I know the guy well. In fact he's one of those people who seems to know thousands of people. He's just not violent, at all, ever.