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What is Salt Typhoon? A security expert explains the Chinese hackers and their attack on US telecommunications networks

  • Written by Richard Forno, Principal Lecturer, CSEE & Assistant Director, UMBC Cybersecurity Institute, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
imageThe U.S. says Chinese hackers have penetrated America's phone networks – and are still inside them.Anton Petrus/Moment via Getty Images

Cyberattacks linked to the Chinese government that compromised large portions of the American telecommunications network have the U.S. government sounding the alarm. The chair of the Senate Intelligence...

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