US Vows Swift Action if Defense Networks Hit by Alleged Russia Hack
On 12/14/20 at 7:59 PM EST
The U.S. military s cyberwarfare branch has promised a quick response if the nation s defense networks were found to have been infiltrated in a major hack that has rocked the federal government.
As of Monday afternoon, the Department of Commerce and the Department of the Treasury have acknowledged that their communications were affected by a yet unidentified perpetrator exploiting a vulnerability in an update to Orion products offered by software company SolarWinds. A third agency, the Department of Homeland Security, is also believed to have been affected, according to Reuters.
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“We conclude that the Dominion Voting System is intentionally and purposefully designed with inherent errors to create systemic fraud and influence election results. The system intentionally generates an enormously high number of ballot errors. The electronic ballots are then transferred for adjudication.” Allied Security Operations Group, Antrim Michigan Forensics Report, Revised Preliminary Summary, v2, December 13, 2020.
“The allowable election error rate established by the Federal Election Commission guidelines is of 1 in 250,000 ballots (.0008%). We observed an error rate of 68.05%. This demonstrated a significant and fatal error in security and election integrity.” Allied Security Operations Group, Antrim Michigan Forensics Report, Revised Preliminary Summary, v2, December 13, 2020.
A devastating cyber attack believed to be tied to Russia continues to pose a grave risk to government networks and the private sector, according to an ominous warning issued Thursday by the Department of Homeland Security.
The bulletin from DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), represented the most striking assessment yet of a cascading threat to federal, state and local networks. CISA has determined that this threat poses a grave risk to the federal government and state, local, tribal, and territorial governments as well as critical infrastructure entities and other private sector organizations, the bulletin stated. This. actor has demonstrated patience, operational security, and complex trade-craft in these intrusions, CISA said of the hackers, adding that the ongoing effort to eliminate the threat would will be highly complex and challenging.
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US Treasury department breached by hackers backed by foreign government (Getty Images)
Russian government hackers are behind the breach at the US Treasury and Commerce departments, says a report.
The hackers have been able to monitor email traffic within the departments for months, and it is not known how many other federal agencies they may have compromised.
Now the FBI is investigating the campaign by the hacking group working for the Russian foreign intelligence service, SVR, according to the
Washington Post.
The hackers, who are known as Cozy Bear or APT29, are reportedly the same group that hacked the White House and State Department under the Obama administration.
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