FBI says its investigating claims its systems were compromised - wire taps
and search warrants apparently hijacked

Date:
Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:05:00 +0000

Description:
FBI is unsurprisingly staying quiet on specific details, but it could be the work of a Chinese hacking group.

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The FBI identified and addressed suspicious activities on FBI networks, and
we have leveraged all technical capabilities to respond, the law enforcement agency told CNN , without elaborating further. While the FBI did not specifically say which systems it was securing, CNN said the breach affected systems used to manage wiretapping and foreign intelligence surveillance warrants, citingan anonymous source familiar with the investigation. You may like Congressional staff emails hacked as part of Salt Typhoon campaign The FBI is hunting for 'unjammable' drones that use one very old-school trick FBI seizes RAMP cybercrime forum used by ransomware gangs Another 'typhoon'? Just as any other major organization, government or private sector, the FBI is under a constant barrage of cyberattacks. It is of particular interest to state-sponsored threat actors coming from countries such as Russia, North Korea, China, and Iran, and has been breached in the past.

In November 2021, attackers compromised a system used by the FBI to send notifications from the Law Enforcement Enterprise Portal. They managed to
send more than 100,000 fake warning emails about a supposed cyberattack. The emails appeared to come from legitimate FBI addresses and warned about
attacks by the hacker group TheDarkOverlord.

A year later, attackers infiltrated the InfraGard program (an FBI-run partnership with private companies that share cybersecurity intelligence) by impersonating corporate executives and obtaining memberships. Then, they
tried to sell the access on a cybercrime forum.

While the FBI did not say who was behind the breach, the media are suspecting Chinese group Salt Typhoon might be involved, since the same threat actor compromised US federal government systems used for court-authorized network wiretapping requests back in 2024. Are you a pro? Subscribe to our newsletter Sign up to the TechRadar Pro newsletter to get all the top news, opinion, features and guidance your business needs to succeed! Contact me with news
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Salt Typhoon is known for high-level cyber-espionage campaigns on behalf of the Chinese government. Their biggest achievement was breaching into all
major US telecommunications providers (AT&T, Verizon, Lumen, Charter Communications, Consolidated Communications, Comcast, Digital Realty, and Windstream), as well as those in dozens of other countries. The best
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