FBI places bounty on Salt Typhoon, $10 million for info on infamous Chinese hacking group

Date:
Mon, 28 Apr 2025 14:00:00 +0000

Description:
The FBI is looking for the public's help identifying key players in attacks
on US critical infrastructure.

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Want to earn $10 million? Easy! All you need to do is have actionable insight on Salt Typhoon, the infamous Chinese hacking collective.

Late last week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) posted a new announcement, asking the public to help identify the key people of the notorious Chinese state-sponsored threat actor.

Those who provide the law enforcement agency with proper intel can expect a reward of up to $10 million.

Bounty rewards

FBI is issuing this announcement to ask the public to report information
about PRC-affiliated activity publicly tracked as "Salt Typhoon" and the compromise of multiple US telecommunications companies, especially
information about specific individuals behind the campaign, the FBIs announcement reads.

Investigation into these actors and their activity revealed a broad and significant cyber campaign to leverage access into these networks to target victims on a global scale. This activity resulted in the theft of call data logs, a limited number of private communications involving identified
victims, and the copying of select information subject to court-ordered US
law enforcement requests.

The FBI also said that the US Department of States Rewards for Justice (RFJ) program is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information about
foreign government-linked individuals participating in certain malicious
cyber activities against US critical infrastructure, in violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA).

From the wording of the announcement, it would seem that the bounty stretches beyond Salt Typhoon and into other groups that attacked US critical infrastructure firms. Those would probably include Volt Typhoon as well - another Chinese state-sponsored group that was observed going after the same targets.

Microsoft is tracking multiple Typhoon threat actors, all of them from China. These groups, involved in everything from cyber-espionage to sabotage and financial crime, are called Brass Typhoon, Purple Typhoon, Volt Typhoon, Salt Typhoon, Brocade Typhoon, and Salmon Typhoon, to name a few.

Via Cybernews

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Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/fbi-places-bounty-on-salt-typhoon-usd10 -million-for-info-on-infamous-chinese-hacking-group

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