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America s nuclear weapons agency was hacked by the suspected Russian spies who backdoored SolarWinds IT monitoring software and compromised several US government bodies, and Microsoft was caught up in the same cyber-storm, too, it was reported Thursday.
The Windows giant uses SolarWinds network management suite Orion, downloads of which were secretly trojanized earlier this year so that when installed within certain targets – such as the US government departments of State, Treasury, Homeland Security, and Commerce – the malicious code s masterminds could slip into their victims networks, execute commands, read emails, steal data, and so on.
Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
The Energy Department and National Nuclear Security Administration, which maintains the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile, have evidence that hackers accessed their networks as part of an extensive espionage operation that has affected at least half a dozen federal agencies, officials directly familiar with the matter said.
On Thursday, DOE and NNSA officials began coordinating notifications about the breach to their congressional oversight bodies after being briefed by Rocky Campione, the chief information officer at DOE.
They found suspicious activity in networks belonging to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories in New Mexico and Washington, the Office of Secure Transportation and the Richland Field Office of the DOE. The hackers have been able to do more damage at FERC than the other agencies, the officials said, but did not elaborate.
Hackers got into critical infrastructure, nuclear weapons, but elections are secure?
A U.S. cybersecurity agency says the recently revealed hack of federal agencies poses a “grave risk” to all levels of government and the private sector.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said that the hack of our federal agencies included “critical infrastructure.” It was a sophisticated attack that was hard to detect and will be difficult to undo.
It’s an ongoing threat.
Hackers accessed systems at the National Nuclear Security Administration, which maintains the U.S. NUCLEAR WEAPONS STOCKPILE.
We are told foreign actors cannot hack our election systems, but they can hack our government agencies, including the one that contains nuclear weapons secrets. Is that believable?
HACKED: US Agencies Maintaining Nuclear Weapons Stockpile Reportedly Compromised in Massive Cyber Attack Mediaite 12/17/2020
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As part of a massive cyber attack that hit numerous parts of the U.S. government, suspected Russian hackers penetrated into the agencies that control the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile.
According to an exclusive report by Politico, both the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration were found in recent days to have been compromised and are now briefing Congress about the breadth and depth of the security breach.
They found suspicious activity in networks belonging to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories in New Mexico and Washington, the Office of Secure Transportation and the Richland Field Office of the DOE. The hackers have been able to do more damage at FERC than the other agencies, the officials said, but did not elaborate.