2 Chinese Hackers Trained in Cisco Program Now Leading Sophisticated Attacks on Cisco Devices

The report details the Salt Typhoon campaign, attributing a wide-ranging intelligence collection operation to two Chinese operators with Cisco Network Academy backgrounds; they are accused of exploiting Cisco products to compromise more than 80 telecommunications firms worldwide, intercept unencrypted communications (including US presidential candidates), and breach CALEA lawful-intercept systems, prompting a US-led Joint Cybersecurity Advisory.