- The FBI asks the public to identify the typhoon of salt
- He says that relevant information could lead to a bonus of up to $ 10 million
- The Chinese would be involved in attacks against American critical infrastructure
Do you want to win $ 10 million? Easy! All you have to do is have an exploitable overview of the Salphon of Salt, the infamous Chinese piracy collective.
At the end of last week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) published a new announcement, asking the public to help identify the key people of the Chinese threat actor sponsored by the Chinese state.
Those who provide the agency of the police an appropriate Intel can expect a reward of up to $ 10 million.
Bonus awards
“The FBI publishes this announcement to ask the public to report information on the activity affiliated with the RPC followed publicly as” Typhoon Salt “and the compromise of several American telecommunications companies, in particular information on specific individuals behind the campaign,” said the FBI announcement.
“The survey on these actors and their activity revealed a wide and important cyber campaign to take advantage of access to these networks to target the victims on a global scale. This activity led to theft of call data newspapers, a limited number of private communications involving identified victims and the copy of the information selected subject to requests for application of the United States in the United States. ”
The FBI also said that the US Department of Justice (RFJ) program (RFJ) program was awarded “up to $ 10 million for information on foreign government-related people participating in certain malicious cyber-activity against American critical infrastructure”, in violation of the law on fraud and computer abuses (CFAA).
According to the wording of the announcement, it would seem that the premium extends beyond the typhoon of salt and in other groups which have attacked us the critical infrastructure companies. These would probably also include Volt Typhoon – another Chinese group sponsored by the State which was observed after the same targets.
Microsoft follows several “typhoon” threat actors, all from China. These groups, involved in everything, from cyber-spying to sabotage and financial crime, are called brass typhoon, purple typhoon, volt typhoon, salt typhoon, brocade typhoon and salmon typhoon, to name a few.
Via Cyberness
