"The collective shrug around Salt Typhoon can also be seen across the news industry, where headlines about Salt Typhoon are making the rounds in the cybersecurity community, but generally aren’t splashed across front pages. In fairness, the news cycle at the moment is exhausting for reporters and readers alike — there’s a new administration forming, major global conflicts rage on and people are looking to take a break from it all over the holidays. Worrying about a massive and likely devastating global hack does not feel very merry.

And many details about the hack — when it happened, who was impacted, the extent of the damage — are slowly emerging and are still not totally clear, making it difficult for the layperson to follow.

But Beijing is taking notes on the sluggish U.S. response. At the one Senate Commerce hearing on the topic held Wednesday, JAMES LEWIS, director of the Strategic Technologies Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, testified about the need for the U.S. to counter Chinese hacking operations by giving Beijing a taste of its own medicine through U.S. offensive hacking. Otherwise, he warned, China would just keep going."

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/national-security-daily/2024/12/12/we-need-to-talk-about-salt-typhoon-00183727

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