Cyber attacks on US government websites have received wide publicity. United States officials blame the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, which denies any involvement in them. According to Reuters, little is known about the purpose and consequences of these attacks.
Hackers obtained classified information using vulnerabilities in Microsoft softwareAdded Experts.
Christine Goodwin, Microsoft’s general manager for digital security, said the company made these findings by analyzing the target customers and types of accounts.
Experts working on the government investigation told Reuters that Russian hackers used specific queries to find digital files. Among them were restrictions.
Former head of the US cyber defense agency CISA, Advisor to Solarwinds and other companies chris krebs name Hacker requests are “logical”.
The Washington Post wrote about the participation Cozy Bear to the hackers of the APT29 group. known as, for cyberattacks on US government sites, including the country’s Treasury and trade ministries. The victims of the attacks were government, consulting, technology, telecommunications and oil and gas companies in the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Organizations were hacked through a network management system update server maintained by SolarWinds.
On December 13 last year it was discovered that hackers, who may have worked for Russia, Stolen information from the US Treasury Department and the Directorate of Telecommunications and Information of the Ministry of Commerce of the country.
Newspaper the new York Times It is written that the attack affected more than 250 government agencies and large companies. These include the State Department, the Energy Department and, in part, the Pentagon.
Politico’s negotiators in the US Congress called P. talked about the participation ofto Russian hacker thousands of letters stolen US State Department officials last year. The State Department used SolarWinds software.
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