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Salt Typhoon hacked the National Guard too.

A Department of Homeland Security memo, obtained by Property of the People through a freedom of information request, reveals the group — suspected to have links to China — “extensively compromised a U.S. state’s Army National Guard network” for nine months last year.

Salt Typhoon gained notoriety in 2024 for hacking telecom networks, targeting the Trump and Harris campaigns, though earlier this month a top FBI official said the group is “largely contained.”

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