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The US government has confirmed that a significant hacking campaign affected its networks and said the attack was “ongoing”.
The attack is believed to be the biggest cyber-raid against American officials in years.
Hackers have been monitoring internal email traffic at the Treasury and Commerce departments, repots said, citing people who said they feared the hacks uncovered so far may be the tip of the iceberg.
“This is a developing situation, said a joint statement issued by the FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).
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By Justin Katz
The National Security Council today announced it invoked an Obama-era presidential directive to create a special group responsible for managing the federal government s response to a breach in the networks of multiple agencies. A Cyber Unified Coordination Group (UCG) has been established to ensure continued unity of effort across the United States Government in response to a significant cyber incident, John Ullyot, an NSC spokesman, said via Twitter. The UCG process facilitates continuous and comprehensive coordination for whole-of-government efforts to identify, mitigate, remediate, and respond to this incident, the tweet continued, referring to agency networks that have been compromised by a vulnerability in SolarWinds Orion, an IT management software suite.
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While neither the culprits nor the motive behind the supply chain that exploited software company SolarWinds have been conclusively identified, the increasing likelihood of a nation-state s involvement has turned eyes toward valuable potential targets within the encrypted halls of the nation s federal revenue management agency. I think it sort of stands to reason, depending on what the nature of the actual hack was, certainly sensitive discussions were probably exposed or at risk of exposure, Peter Kucik, who spent nearly seven years at the Treasury Department s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), told