Salt Typhoon’s latest victims include Charter, Consolidated, and Windstream, underscoring the widening scope of China's cyberespionage campaign against critical US infrastructure.

More U.S. companies have been added to the list of telecommunications firms hacked in a wave of breaches by a Chinese state-backed threat group tracked as Salt Typhoon.

The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned Yin Kechen and Sichuan Juxinhe Network Technology Co. for their alleged involvement in 'Salt Typhoon,' a series of hacks compromising American telecom companies.