🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-04-10
I delve into why Salt Typhoon briefly faded from the headlines amid other distractions.
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One headline for Thursday Throwback caught my eye.
🧂 + 🛜 The herd of packets has been heard.
Techmeme: Sources: Chinese officials acknowledged in a secret December 2024 meeting that China was behind the Volt Typhoon hacks, tying them to the US' support for Taiwan (Dustin Volz/Wall Street Journal)
By Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal. View the full context on Techmeme.
Previously… Salt Typhoon was seemingly a blip in the news because some other shiny object squirrels appeared to knock it out of the headlines.
Techmeme: The Trump administration fires all advisory committee members within the DHS, including those in the CISA's CSRB, which was investigating Salt Typhoon hackers (Becky Bracken/Dark Reading)
By Becky Bracken / Dark Reading. View the full context on Techmeme.
Why Typhoon? Reasons.
Techmeme: Microsoft starts naming threat actor groups after weather events, like typhoon, sandstorm, and blizzard; each name represents a nation state or a motivation (Tom Warren/The Verge)
By Tom Warren / The Verge. View the full context on Techmeme.
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