The Largest Telecommunications Attack in U.S. History: What Really Happened—And How We Fight Back

When Senator Ben Ray Luján warned that the United States was facing “the largest telecommunications hack in our nation’s history,” it marked a turning point in how we understand national cyber risk. On December 4, 2024, the White House confirmed a sprawling cyber-espionage campaign targeting 80 global telecom providers across dozens of countries¹. A joint task force—the Operation Enduring Security Framework—was launched by the NSA, Pentagon, and CISA to contain the damage. The adversary behind it: a sophisticated nation-state threat actor Microsoft calls Salt Typhoon, also tracked as Ghost Emperor, FamousSparrow, Earth Estrie, UNC2286, and earlier as LightBasin / UNC1945 […]

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