{"id":215407,"date":"2026-02-19T13:48:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/fbi-threats-from-salt-typhoon-are-still-very-much-ongoing\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T13:48:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:48:00","slug":"fbi-threats-from-salt-typhoon-are-still-very-much-ongoing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/fbi-threats-from-salt-typhoon-are-still-very-much-ongoing\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0FBI: Threats from Salt Typhoon are \u2018still very much ongoing\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/fbi-salt-typhoon-ongoing-threat-cybertalks-2026\/\">\u00a0FBI: Threats from Salt Typhoon are \u2018still very much ongoing\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/fbi-salt-typhoon-ongoing-threat-cybertalks-2026\/\">https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/fbi-salt-typhoon-ongoing-threat-cybertalks-2026\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-19 13:48:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"cyberscoop.com\">cyberscoop.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A top FBI cyber official said Salt Typhoon, the Chinese cyber espionage group behind the widespread compromise of U.S. telecommunications infrastructure in 2024, continues to pose a broad threat to both America\u2019s private and public sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Machtinger, deputy assistant director for cyber intelligence at the FBI, touted improved partnerships between the telecommunications industry and government in the wake of the campaign while speaking at CyberTalks, presented by CyberScoop, in Washington D.C. Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Companies who engaged with the FBI and federal agencies like CISA early after the campaign went public \u201chave been without a doubt the most successful in mitigating the impact of the Salt Typhoon intrusions,\u201d he claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, CyberScoop\u2019s reporting found that the U.S. telecommunications sector was riddled with basic cybersecurity vulnerabilities and patchwork consolidated networks, and Salt Typhoon took advantage of these weaknesses to gain widespread, persistent access to major telecom networks.<\/p>\n<p>Machtinger echoed a similar sentiment in describing lessons the FBI took away from the episode, saying that \u201cdespite all the advances in cybersecurity tools and strategies, it is still the most basic vulnerabilities that provide entry points.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cybersecurity leaders and network defenders have a responsibility to understand their own vulnerabilities and implement \u201cfundamental\u201d cybersecurity practices such as zero trust, least-privilege access, secure-by-design principles, end-to-end encryption and other protections.<\/p>\n<p>Despite an increasingly complex threat and technology environment, phishing attacks or targeting vulnerable legacy systems are still the most common ways the FBI sees hacking groups gain access to their victims. While foreign intelligence agencies do use zero-day vulnerabilities and other sophisticated tools to compromise well-defended systems, \u201cby and large this is not what we are seeing, and it is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/fbi-salt-typhoon-ongoing-threat-cybertalks-2026\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0FBI: Threats from Salt Typhoon are \u2018still very much ongoing\u2019 https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/fbi-salt-typhoon-ongoing-threat-cybertalks-2026\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-19 13:48:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[24,25],"class_list":["post-215407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-cybersecurity","tag-phishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}