China-Backed Hackers Breached Top Global Telecom Firms Using Old Software Flaws: US Cyber Advisory
A cybersecurity advisory, which includes America’s National Security Agency, Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, and Federal Bureau of Investigation, etc, has said that in a cyber-espionage campaign lasting at least two years, Chinese government-backed hackers have broken into a number of major telecom businesses throughout the world. The US officials said that the hackers utilised the stolen devices to acquire full access to the network traffic of several private companies and government agencies once they had a foothold within their targets. The Chinese hackers allegedly exploited networking devices from key vendors such as Cisco, Citrix, Zyxel, QNAP, DrayTek, MikroTik, D-Link, and Netgear in the recently disclosed cyber assault. However, according to the findings, Chinese espionage often began with hackers surveying target networks and learning the manufacturers, models, versions, and known vulnerabilities of routers and networking equipment using open-source scanning tools like RouterSploit and RouterScan.
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