Canada says that telecommunications companies have finished spying penetrations associated with China

The Canadian government and the Federal Investigation Office say they are aware of a harmful activity targeting telecommunications companies throughout Canada, which attributes interventions to the China -backed piracy group Hurricane salt.

in A joint consultant late on FridayThe Federal Reserve at least said the Canadian telecom companies were hacked at least in mid -February this year, as infiltrators dealt with three CISCO steering devices to allow the gathering of hidden traffic from its network.

The Federal Reserve says that separate investigations indicate that the targeting of Salt Typhonine is “broader than the telecommunications sector.”

Hurricane of salt has been active since late 2024, previously It targets American phone giants and Internet service providersAnd recently Data center hostAs part of a wide spy campaign aimed at collecting intelligence information on senior US government officials. Salt Typhoon is one of several piracy groups associated with China He believes he is preparing China to launch a The possible future invasion of Taiwan by 2027.

Canadian Joint Consultant-FBI said that the infiltrators will surely continue to “target Canadian organizations” over the next two years.