Salt Typhoon Attacks Highlight Need for Advanced Defenses

The report discusses recent Chinese state-backed cyber espionage campaigns by groups such as Volt Typhoon and Salt Typhoon that penetrated U.S. critical infrastructure, including significant intrusions into telecommunications core systems; it highlights the operational sophistication and persistence of these actors, congressional concern over the scope and undetected intrusions, and expert calls for coordinated national defenses, continuous threat hunting, and readiness for AI-enhanced offensive threats.