Salt Typhoon – given its name by Microsoft – is a Chinese state-linked hacking group that has been active since 2020. It has breached telecommunications companies in dozens of countries, President Joe Biden’s deputy national security adviser Anne Neuberger told journalists overnight, burrowing its way into valuable broadband and telecommunication networks.

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A spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in Washington said in October that the “US intelligence community and cybersecurity companies have been secretly collaborating to piece together false evidence and spread disinformation” about the Chinese government supporting such attacks.