The US government wants to deter Russia from future cyberattacks with tough measures.
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Washington The US government will announce sanctions against Russia because of the so-called Solarwinds hacker attack last year. The measures should be announced on Thursday, a senior government official told the AP news agency. The measures should send a clear message to Russia and prevent similar acts in the future. It remained unclear whether further steps would follow.
The US departments of finance, justice, energy and homeland security were attacked in the hacker attack. The departments are still checking to this day which information could have been stolen. The attackers first hacked the Solarwinds network software and smuggled malware in using a security update in October 2019. However, this was initially not activated to see whether it could remain undetected.
In March 2020, the hackers would have started stealing login data in order to be able to move around the network, reported in February Kevin Mandia, the head of Fireeye, the information technology security company that had only discovered the attack in December.
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