Summary
Prioritize patching critical sponsored cyber actors are seeking to prevulnerabilities in appliances known to be position themselves on IT networks for disruptive frequently exploited by Volt Typhoon. or destructive cyberattacks against U.S. critical infrastructure in the event of a major crisis or conflict with the United States. application, access, and security logs CISA, NSA, FBI and the following partners are and store logs in a central system. releasing this advisory to warn critical infrastructure organizations about this assessment, which is based on observations from the U.S. authoring agencies’ incident response activities at critical infrastructure organizations compromised by the PRC state-sponsored cyber group known as Volt Typhoon (also known as Vanguard Panda, BRONZE SILHOUETTE, Dev-0391, UNC3236, Voltzite, and Insidious Taurus): The U.S. authoring agencies have confirmed that Volt Typhoon has compromised the IT environments of multiple critical infrastructure organizations—primarily in Communications, Energy, Transportation Systems, and Water and Wastewater Systems Sectors—in the continental and noncontinental United States and its territories, including Guam. Volt Typhoon’s choice of targets and pattern of behavior is not consistent with traditional cyber espionage or intelligence gathering operations, and the U.S.