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.

Chinese hackers breached the U.S. government office that reviews foreign investments for national security risks, CNN reported on Friday, citing three U.S. officials familiar with the matter.