MADRID, 6 One. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Several United States intelligence agencies, including the National Security Agency (NSA, for its acronym in English), on Tuesday accused “an actor of Russian origin” of the latest cyber attacks suffered by some of the offices and agencies of the government.
“This work indicates that the Advanced Persistent Threat (APT, for its acronym in English), probably an actor of Russian origin, is responsible for most of all the cyberattacks discovered recently,” these organisms have pointed out through a statement.
The statement was issued jointly by the NSA, as well as the United States Federal Police (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).
All of them make up the Unified Cyber Coordination Group (UCG), which has encrypted about 18,000 clients from both the public and private sectors affected by SolarWinds software, which last month, the CISA recommended disconnecting, considering that it was compromised by hackers.
In turn, the UCG has indicated that there are ten government agencies in the United States that have also been affected.
Last December, the CISA warned that several US agencies had been compromised since last March by hackers who had “demonstrated patience, operational security and commercial skill in these intrusions.”
In recent weeks, Washington has been accusing Russia of being behind these cyber attacks, something that Moscow has denied on several occasions. However, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, chose to divert the accusations towards China, in a new episode of his crusade against the Asian giant due to the coronavirus crisis.
“Russia, Russia, Russia is the favorite chant when something happens from the failed media outlets, which for financial reasons are petrified in the debate over the possibility of it being China (it may be!),” Trump wrote on his Twitter account.
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