Pompeo accused Russia of cyberattack on the US government: Trump did not support

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in an interview that Russia was behind the massive Sunburst cyberattack. During this attack, hackers gained access to data from the US Department of the Interior, Defense, Homeland Security, and other agencies. Writes about it Air force.

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“We can say pretty clearly that the Russians were doing this,” Pompeo said in a Dec. 19 interview with Fox News host Mark Levin.

Pompeo believes that Russian agents have infiltrated the networks of American public and private institutions for several months, and this has happened not only with American companies.

Pompeo described the attack itself as “an attempt to inject elements of code into US government systems using a program developed by a third party.”

The attack is being investigated, but the results of the investigation will likely be classified, Pompeo said. He added that Russia is “trying to undermine the American way of life.”

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The current US President Donald Trump on Saturday, December 19, said that the mainstream media was drawing too much attention to the version of Russia, when in fact China could be behind the attack.

“The cyber attack in fake media looks much more significant than in reality. They reported everything to me. Everyone starts screaming about Russia when something happens because the mainstream media, mostly for financial reasons, is terribly afraid to say it could have been China (and it could have been!),” Trump tweeted. .

What do we know about the attack?

Discovered this week, the Sunburst cyberattack began several months ago. It became the longest and largest in US history. The most affected was the American government, which most likely was the main target.

The hackers reportedly opened the computer networks of many American organizations, including the Treasury, Commerce and Homeland Security departments.

Cybercriminals managed to infiltrate computer systems through software products from SolarWinds, widely used at the corporate level.

About 18 SolarWinds customers have downloaded SolarWinds Orion network management systems. A week earlier, hackers hacked it and inserted a secret code into it. Thus, the attackers gained access to the data of all these companies and institutions.

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Earlier this week, all US federal agencies were instructed to remove SolarWinds.

Governments and private companies around the world are now purging installed SolarWinds software products from their computer systems.

It will take several years to fully appreciate the magnitude of the Sunburst cyberattack, according to computer security experts.

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