The American authorities are ready to give a tough response to "Russian cyber" in the form of sanctions and other measures, as reported by Jake Sullivan, adviser to the US President for National Security. It is noted that the appropriate measures will be taken after studying the scale of damage from cybercrime attacks.
According to the CBS edition, the US authorities will soon be preparing to respond to Cyberataks and private companies in the United States in December 2020. In these attacks, the US President's administration accuses Russia.
"Our response to kiberataks will consist of a complex of visible and hidden tools of exposure. I want to note that new impact measures will not be simple sanctions. Our intelligence is currently determined which harm to the CyBeratics of the United States. Then we need a few weeks to prepare response. Response actions will be implemented using a comprehensive toolkit, "said Jake Sullivan.
It is worth recalling that the United States accuses the Hackers supported by the Russian government in kiberataks, which were held in December 2020 per a number of state-owned agencies and private companies. Attacks were implemented using the preliminary hacking on SolarWinds Orion, the security updates contained backdoor. As a result of hacker actions, about 18 thousand organizations and companies around the world are considered victims, which are SolarWinds clients and downloaded the appropriate update.
In early February 2021, several American departments were accused of an attack on SolarWinds of the Russian Federation: the FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and others. According to the FBI report, Russian hackers by hacking Solarwinds tried to collect intelligence information.
Dmitry Peskov, the secretary of the President of the Russian Federation, in response to accusations from the United States, said the following: "The Russian Federation has nothing to do with these cyberatics. Such accusations are a real Russophobia. If we talk about some kind of actions of the United States, in recently they are very difficult to predict. "
According to the results of the investigation, it was found that cybercriminals behind the hacking SolarWinds were spying for American institutions and companies within a few months. The compromise of the organization's internal networks occurred immediately after the customers downloaded the software update Solarwinds Orion software with a malicious code. The fact of hacking of domestic networks was officially recognized in the US Department of Finance, National Telecommunications and Information Agency, Nuclear Weapons, Ministry of Internal Security of the United States and other departments.
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