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  "generatedAt": "2026-10-22T21:47:37.879Z",
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    "label": "Salt Typhoon",
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    {
      "slug": "salt-typhoon-us-telecom-breaches",
      "title": "Salt Typhoon: Chinese state hackers inside US telecom networks",
      "url": "https://pwn.watch/i/salt-typhoon-us-telecom-breaches",
      "json": "https://pwn.watch/i/salt-typhoon-us-telecom-breaches.json",
      "status": "closed",
      "severity": "critical",
      "patchStatus": "no-fix-needed",
      "product": "US telecommunications carriers",
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        "espionage",
        "china",
        "nation-state"
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      "startedAt": "2024-11-13",
      "closedAt": "2024-12-04",
      "updatedAt": "2024-12-04",
      "summary": "PRC-affiliated actors (publicly called Salt Typhoon) compromised networks at multiple US telecommunications companies. The FBI and CISA said they stole customer call records, got into the private communications of a limited number of people mainly involved in government or political activity, and copied information subject to US law enforcement wiretap requests. Allied agencies then published hardening guidance for communications infrastructure.",
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      "date": "2024-12-04",
      "title": "CISA, NSA, FBI and Five Eyes partners release hardening guidance for communications infrastructure",
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      "sourceUrl": "https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/enhanced-visibility-and-hardening-guidance-communications-infrastructure",
      "url": "https://pwn.watch/i/salt-typhoon-us-telecom-breaches"
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      "incidentTitle": "Salt Typhoon: Chinese state hackers inside US telecom networks",
      "severity": "critical",
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      "patchStatus": "no-fix-needed",
      "date": "2024-11-13",
      "title": "FBI and CISA joint statement on PRC targeting of commercial telecommunications",
      "body": null,
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/news/joint-statement-fbi-and-cisa-peoples-republic-china-prc-targeting-commercial-telecommunications",
      "url": "https://pwn.watch/i/salt-typhoon-us-telecom-breaches"
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