Telecommunications — Cyber Threat Activity
Threat actors, incidents and malware targeting the Telecommunications sector — 128 recorded incidents and 89 tracked groups.
- Recorded incidents: 128
- Incidents, trailing 180 days: 53
- Tracked threat actors: 89
- Malware families: 165
Recent incidents
- Canal 9 Litoral 2026-07-22
- Koperasi Karyawan PT Aplikanusa Lintasarta 2026-07-21
- NewNet 2026-07-18
- Westcoast Communication Services 2026-07-17
- Boston Electric and Telephone 2026-07-16
- Edison Global Networks Limited 2026-07-14
- Atcom 2026-07-14
- Retelit SpA PIVA 2026-07-11
- Telewave, Inc. 2026-07-06
- T Online 2026-07-01
- Canada Wide Media 2026-07-01
- Gsma 2026-06-29
- Sivatel Bangkok 2026-06-21
- Q Link Wireless 2026-06-16
- TeleFinity 2026-06-15
- American Tower Corporation 2026-06-12
- Zayo.com & Allstream.com 2026-06-12
- SatCom CX 2026-06-08
- Power & Tel 2026-06-01
- Hightower Communications 2026-06-01
Threat actors targeting Telecommunications
- Qilin 22 incidents
- Akira 15 incidents
- Play Ransomware 10 incidents
- DragonForce 9 incidents
- INC Ransom 6 incidents
- Lynx Ransomware 6 incidents
- Cl0p 5 incidents
- ShinyHunters 5 incidents
- The Gentlemen 4 incidents
- Salt Typhoon 3 incidents
- ALP-001 3 incidents
- APT73 3 incidents
- Handala 3 incidents
- Hunters International 3 incidents
- Coinbase Cartel 2 incidents
- FunkSec 2 incidents
- LockBit 2 incidents
- Medusa Ransomware 2 incidents
- Nova 2 incidents
- SafePay 2 incidents
- Deadlock 1 incident
- LAPSUS$ 1 incident
- Booba Project 1 incident
- Anubis 1 incident
Where these victims are
- United States 51
- Canada 5
- United Kingdom 5
- Germany 4
- Australia 3
- Italy 3
- Austria 2
- Belgium 2
- Chile 2
- Czech Republic 2
- India 2
- Poland 2
Malware used against Telecommunications
Families used by the threat actors that target this sector, derived from actor tooling rather than observed in these incidents directly.
- BlackCat Malware
- Cobalt Strike Malware
- Impacket Tool
- Mimikatz Tool
- PlugX Malware
- PsExec Tool
- China Chopper Malware
- Empire Tool
- gh0st RAT Malware
- LaZagne Tool
- ngrok Tool
- njRAT Malware
Coverage. 76.7% of incidents in our log carry a sector classification; the remainder name a victim we have not placed in an industry. Counts here are a floor, not a total, and are not comparable between sectors of different sizes.