Kelly Hill
Amid the ongoing revelations related to the Salt Typhoon cyber attack on telecommunications companies including AT&T, Verizon and Lumen, a Senate subcommittee recently held a hearing on the issues related China and cybersecurity, as well as economic security and national security.
The national security fallout from the Salt Typhoon hack continues to emerge. Politico reported this week that the Chinese hackers were able to access cellular logs on a “vast number of Americans” as a result of the hacks. The Wall Street Journal also has reported that Chinese hacking targets of Salt Typhoon included both the Harris and Trump campaigns, including Vice President Harris, VP-elect J.D. Vance and President-elect Donald Trump, as well as Senate staffers.
“Think of it for a moment—a foreign adversary attempted to wiretap both presidential campaigns during the past election. We are still learning each week about how sprawling and catastrophic this hacking campaign was, but what we know now—and it’s publicly known—should galvanize action now,” said U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), who is chair of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law. “We need to ensure these specific types of hacks will never happen again.”
Here are five things to know from that hearing.
–Tech firms have a large amount of risk associated with escalating U.S./China tensions. According to testimony by Isaac Stone Fish, CEO of Strategy Risks—which assesses enterprise business operations exposure to China across supply chain, partnerships and other factors, the largest U.S. technology firms have “above average exposure to China.” That includes Apple, Tesla, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon (but notably, Alphabet/Google has below-average exposure). Other firms with above-average exposure to China, according to Strategy Risks’ assessment and ranking, include Cisco, Motorola Solution, Amphenol and Dell Technologies.
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