Washington's Cybersecurity Storm of Complacency

This commentary reports that the Salt Typhoon state-backed cyber-espionage group breached major US telecoms (Verizon, AT&T, Lumen), potentially accessing systems tied to intelligence collection and wiretapping, and argues that these incidents expose failures in US federal oversight and cybersecurity policy while calling for mandatory standards, a unified cyber agency, greater investment in detection/response, and more active deterrence.