The FBI says that the Chinese salt hurricane has penetrated at least 200 American companies

Chinese -backed piracy campaign It was previously hacked to nine US Telecom and Internet It has now penetrated at least 200 American companies, according to the senior Internet commander at the FBI.

Brett Lithmerman, Assistant Director of the FBI, told the Washington Post that the infiltrators, Hurricane saltalso The companies stormed 80 countriesIt reveals for the first time the global size of the Chinese espionage campaign.

Leatherman did not mention the penetration companies. AT & T, VerizonAnd cavity It was previously confirmed that it was breached, and Charter Etisalat and Windstream Later as victims, among others.

The infiltrators targeted calls records between senior politicians and American officials, which allowed them to draw who was related to whom, and who was the United States flowing with legal orders. For some time, the threat was so severe The Federal Bureau urged the American to switch to encrypted messaging applications To avoid reaching their calls and messages.

The FBI, along with nearly twenty international agencies, said, In one of the consulting (PDF) published Wednesday Typhoon Salt is primarily targeting the company’s guidance devices and the movement of companies sensitive to companies, and has offered technical guidance on how to identify interventions.

Leather The Post told the threat from China “continuing”.