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US feds hacked

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Postby dspp » December 14th, 2020, 12:13 pm

Suspected Russian hackers spied on US federal agencies
FBI to investigate after treasury and commerce departments believed to have been targeted

Suspected Russian hackers have carried out the biggest cyber-raid against the US for more than five years, US officials have said, targeting key government networks including the Treasury and commerce departments. The hackers were able to monitor internal email traffic and may have compromised other government bodies, in what is being described as a highly sophisticated state-level attack. The situation is so grave it led on Saturday to a national security council meeting at the White House. The Trump administration has given few details beyond confirming one of its agencies was breached. It has asked the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to investigate, and a hunt is now on to determine the scale of the damage.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... l-agencies

(replaces an item ody put on another thread earlier)

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Re: US feds hacked

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Postby dspp » December 14th, 2020, 9:34 pm


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Re: US feds hacked

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Postby odysseus2000 » December 15th, 2020, 10:55 am

GCHQ director wary of China:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13480215/ ... rce=pushly

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Re: US feds hacked

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Postby odysseus2000 » December 18th, 2020, 1:06 pm

Oh dear! US does look to have got itself into a pickle via the solar winds hack:

https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/17/221 ... brad-smith

I had no great faith in anything Microsoft, but the scale of this looks seriously impressive.

Of course this may all be hype to get more Federal funding, but if the hack is as big as some folk are beginning to argue it looks to have compromised many things, maybe even US election results.

I would be greatly interested in anyone who has detailed knowledge of all of this and can comment about what it really means.

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