China's Volt Typhoon Has Lived in Critical Networks for At Least Five Years

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A joint cybersecurity advisory from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the National Security Agency (NSA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), several US government departments, and the security arms of the Five Eyes alliance warns that the Chinese state-sponsored hacking group known as Volt Typhoon has been living in the networks of some critical industries for “at least five years.”

The alert warns that the Chinese group, Volt Typhoon, had quietly burrowed into the networks of aviation, rail, mass transit, highway, maritime, pipeline, water, and sewage organizations.

None of the Targeted organizations were identified by name, but the …