Cyber hacker, is the US State Department a sieve too?
The US State Department was hit by a cyberattack and Cyber Command reported a "possible serious breach" of the Foggy Bottom systems. All the details and tweets from the Fox News correspondent from the White House
The US State Department was hit by a cyber attack and the Defense Department Cyber Command reported a "possible serious breach" of the systems. The American media reported this, while a source told Reuters that the State Department has not experienced significant disruptions and its operations have not been hindered in any way. In particular, the activities of the Department, engaged in evacuations in Afghanistan, would not have been affected.
Significant tweets by Jacqui Heinrich, White House Correspondent for Fox News :
NEW, UPDATE: Cyber attack on State Department is believed to be an isolated event – and no other federal agencies are currently impacted. Multiple sources also describe the incident as having no operational impact or exposure of classified systems
https://t.co/0yhkh4uoh0– Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) August 22, 2021
Multiple sources tell Fox news it is not clear whether a foreign entity is behind the recent State Department attack, but channels of notifications made to Congress indicate it is possible.
– Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) August 22, 2021
In March, Microsoft announced an emergency patch for critical vulnerabilities in Exchange Server software – first discovered in early January targeting US policy think tanks and industrial base entities, and attributed to the Chinese state-sponsored hacking group HAFNIUM.
– Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) August 22, 2021
Days before the patch was issued, a number of other actors piggybacked on the initial breach – affecting tens of thousands of organizations around the world.
– Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) August 22, 2021
Members of congress want more detail on the recent State Department breach. @senrobportman tells Fox, “I'm concerned by reports of a breach at the State Department. As our bipartisan report earlier this month showed, there is a sustained failure to address cybersecurity…
– Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) August 22, 2021
Congressman @tedlieu (D-CA) also responded to news of the incident on Twitter, writing "If the hack below is true, it's another reason why the Senate should pass our bipartisan bill to improve cyber security at @StateDept ."
– Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) August 22, 2021
“Few places in government face as many threats from spies and foreign adversaries than the State Department,” Lieu wrote.
– Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) August 22, 2021
(article being updated)
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/cyber-hacker-pure-il-dipartimento-di-stato-usa-e-un-colabrodo/ on Sun, 22 Aug 2021 08:07:29 +0000.