The unusually aggressive and sophisticated attacks include access to at least two major providers with millions of customers as well as to several smaller providers.
Chinese government-backed hackers have penetrated deep into U.S. internet service providers in recent months to spy on their users, according to people familiar with the ongoing American response and private security researchers.
Though there is no evidence that the new inroads are aimed at anything other than gathering intelligence, some of the techniques and resources employed are associated with those used in the past year by a China-backed group known as Volt Typhoon, two of the people said. U.S.
“There are signs that in order to receive more congressional budgets and government contracts, the U.S. intelligence community and cybersecurity companies have been secretly collaborating to piece together false evidence and spread disinformation about so-called Chinese government’s support for cyberattacks against the U.S.,” he added.Lumen researchers said they had identified three U.S. internet service providers that had been hacked this summer, one of them large, along with another U.S.
Lumen wrote that it located malware inside ISP routers serving certain groups or individual customers that could intercept passwords from those customers. Lumen said it believed the malicious software was being used by Volt Typhoon.
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