Salt Typhoon: A Wake-up Call for Critical Infrastructure

Salt Typhoon was a sophisticated, likely state-sponsored campaign that compromised multiple major U.S. telecommunications providers and ISP networks using zero-day exploits and obfuscation, gaining access to lawful intercept systems and metadata for over a million users; the report outlines significant operational, financial, regulatory and privacy impacts and urges federal–private collaboration, adoption of zero‑trust architectures, and AI-driven monitoring to restore resilience.