Microsoft recently released a warning saying that it has uncovered evidence of a state-sponsored hacker group in China that is
primarily targeting critical communication infrastructure in the US. The threat actor, known as Volt Typhoon, has reportedly been in operation since mid-2021 and have been attacking Fortinet FortiGuard devices by exploiting vulnerabilities that the company never bothered to patch up.
As written in Microsoft’s blog, Volt Typhoon has targeted critical infrastructure organizations in Guam – one of the US’ most crucial military outpost, Andersen airbase, is located on the island – and elsewhere in the US. In its current campaign, the targeted organisations span the communications, manufacturing, utility, transportation, construction, maritime, government, information technology, and education sectors.
“Volt Typhoon proxies all its network traffic to its targets through compromised SOHO network edge devices . Microsoft has confirmed that many of the devices, which include those manufactured by ASUS, Cisco, D-Link, NETGEAR, and Zyxel, allow the owner to expose HTTP or SSH management interfaces to the internet. Owners of network edge devices should ensure that management interfaces are not exposed to the public internet in order to reduce their attack surface.
It’s not Microsoft that is sounding alarms about Volt Typhoon either. The Five Eyes Intelligence network, which comprises the US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the UK, also released a statement that outright fingered China and the threat actor in its state-sponsored hacking activities.
On that note, China hasn’t brushed off these allegations but has lambasted the allegations that it is sponsoring Volt Typhoon, saying that the collective “lacked evidence” and that the US, specifically, is “expanding channels for disseminating false information”. Having said that, it is not wrong to say that China is an old hand at(Source:
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