Security The US suffers the worst 'hack' in its history, with cyberattacks that open security breaches in Defense, Commerce and Energy
Ten hours after the US Secretary of State,
Mike Pompeo
, stated that "it is quite clear that it was the Russians who carried out" the massive cyber espionage operation detected by the United States this week, Donald Trump has taken the contrary. .
"Russia, Russia, Russia is the song whenever something happens because the dumb media is, mostly for financial reasons, terrified to discuss the possibility that it was China (it could be)"
, the president has declared in a message on the social network Twitter with a copy to Pompeo himself and to the national intelligence director, John Ratcliffe.
According to the CNN television network, the White House had planned to issue a statement on Friday attributing the action to Moscow, although without totally ruling out the participation of other actors, but the decision has been postponed.
Trump's reaction thus breaks with the consensus of the American intelligence community, which considers Russia the author of what is already the largest cyber espionage operation in history, with
more than 18,000 affected entities
, most of them in the United States. although, also, in other countries, including Spain.
According to the United States media, the attack occurred around March, when hackers from the
Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR)
altered a software update from the Texas company SolarWinds.
The 'hack' was only discovered by the computer security
company FireEye
, which alerted the authorities.
By then, a large part of the US government apparatus was infiltrated by this software that was dedicated to extracting information from the systems of, among other government units, the
National Nuclear Security Administration
, which manages the maintenance and modernization of the 5,800 atomic bombs. that the United States has.
The
infiltrated
SolarWinds
product
is called
Orion
, and it is software that monitors and detects problems in computer networks, so it has access to all systems within organizations.
According to SolarWinds, at least 18,000 organizations have been affected by this 'hack'.
The US authorities do not rule out that the infiltrated software is still collecting and sending information to Russia.
The espionage case could also have a financial subplot.
On December 7, just a week before the plot was discovered, two of Silicon Valley's biggest mutual funds -
Silver Lake and Thoma Bravo
- sold $ 286 million (233 million euros) in SolarWinds stock, which it has aroused in some the suspicion that they had information about the espionage case.
Silver Lake and Thoma Bravo each have three of their executives on SolarWinds' board of directors.
Since the spy case broke out, the Texas software company's shares have fallen 22%.
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