CyberTalks 2026

CyberTalks 2026 was the forum at which an FBI official confirmed that Salt Typhoon's telecoms compromise was "still very, very much ongoing" as of February 2026, with at least 200 companies across 80 countries affected as of August 2025. The statement is the highest-profile public confirmation that the campaign, first disclosed in late 2024, had not been contained.

CyberTalks is an annual cybersecurity conference series that provides a forum for government officials, researchers and industry practitioners. The 2026 edition's Salt Typhoon disclosure was significant because it came from an FBI official speaking on the record, rather than in an anonymous briefing, confirming both the scale and the ongoing Nature of the China-linked telecoms intrusion at a time when the incoming Trump administration was reassessing federal cyber programme priorities.

For enterprise security teams and telecoms operators, the FBI's on-the-record CyberTalks statement is the primary public evidence base for the assessed ongoing scale of the Salt Typhoon campaign. It is cited alongside CISA's high-confidence assessment of Volt Typhoon pre-positioning in US critical infrastructure as the two anchor data points for the China-nexus tier of the threat landscape in early 2026.