{"id":641,"date":"2025-06-24T14:13:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T12:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/?p=641"},"modified":"2025-06-24T14:13:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T12:13:04","slug":"china-linked-salt-typhoon-exploits-critical-cisco-vulnerability-to-target-canadian-telecom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2025\/06\/24\/china-linked-salt-typhoon-exploits-critical-cisco-vulnerability-to-target-canadian-telecom\/","title":{"rendered":"China-linked Salt Typhoon Exploits Critical Cisco Vulnerability to Target Canadian Telecom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyber.gc.ca\/en\/guidance\/cyber-threat-bulletin-prc-cyber-actors-target-telecommunications-companies-global-cyberespionage-campaign\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">issued<\/a>&nbsp;an advisory warning of cyber attacks mounted by the China-linked&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/02\/cisco-confirms-salt-typhoon-exploited.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Salt Typhoon<\/a>&nbsp;actors to breach major global telecommunications providers as part of a cyber espionage campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The attackers exploited a critical Cisco IOS XE software (<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2023\/10\/warning-unpatched-cisco-zero-day.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CVE-2023-20198<\/a>, CVSS score: 10.0) to access configuration files from three network devices registered to a Canadian telecommunications company in mid-February 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n<a class=\"wp-block-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2025\/06\/24\/china-linked-salt-typhoon-exploits-critical-cisco-vulnerability-to-target-canadian-telecom\/\" target=\"_self\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/06\/china-linked-salt-typhoon-exploits.html\">China-linked Salt Typhoon Exploits Critical Cisco Vulnerability to Target Canadian Telecom<\/a><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: China-linked Salt Typhoon Exploits Critical Cisco Vulnerability to Target Canadian Telecom<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have&nbsp;issued&nbsp;an advisory warning of cyber attacks mounted by the China-linked&nbsp;Salt Typhoon&nbsp;actors to breach major global telecommunications providers as part of a cyber espionage campaign. The attackers exploited a critical Cisco IOS XE software (CVE-2023-20198, CVSS score:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[40,13],"class_list":["post-641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability","tag-40","tag-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":642,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions\/642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}