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Hackers with ties to the Chinese government have breached several U.S. internet service providers in the past few months (The Wall Street Journal, subscription).

What’s going on: In “[t]he hacking campaign, called Salt Typhoon by investigators … the actors linked to China burrowed into America’s broadband networks. In this type of intrusion, bad actors aim to establish a foothold within the infrastructure of cable and broadband providers that would allow them to access data stored by telecommunications companies or launch a damaging cyberattack.”

• The discovery is the latest in a series of cyberattacks the U.S. has connected to China in recent years.
• Last week, the U.S. disrupted more than 200,000 routers, cameras and other connected devices being used by the China-based hacking group Flax Typhoon.

A “massive threat”: “The cyberthreat posed by the Chinese government is massive,” said FBI Director Christopher Wray earlier this year.

• And “[o]fficials have repeatedly said that what the private sector and government agencies know about Chinese intrusions into critical infrastructure is likely the ‘tip of the iceberg.’”

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