Charter, Consolidated, Windstream reportedly join China's Salt Typhoon victim list

The article describes a Chinese government-linked espionage campaign called Salt Typhoon that breached major U.S. telecommunications companies (including AT&T, Verizon, Lumen, and additional providers named by reporting) and allegedly accessed U.S. Treasury workstations by exploiting unpatched Cisco and Fortinet network devices and a management account without multi-factor authentication, enabling extensive traffic access and potential exfiltration; the activity reflects sophisticated nation-state targeting of critical infrastructure.