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How the U.S. Government Got Hacked
Hackers believed to be linked to Russia breached computer systems belonging to several government agencies — Treasury, Homeland Security, Commerce, and the U.S. Postal Service. The intruders were able to successfully infiltrate using a vulnerability that existed within a network monitoring product sold by SolarWinds. Here's a closer look at what's described as a "monthslong global cyberspying campaign."
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Federal security agencies have finally confirmed that the massive hack of government and private computer systems that was uncovered in mid-December was likely Russian in origin. A statement from a joint...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hackers broke into the networks of the Treasury and Commerce departments as part of a monthslong global cyberespionage campaign revealed Sunday, just days after the prominent cybersecurity...
The Department of Homeland Security, the State Department and the National Institutes of Health on Monday joined the list of known victims of a months-long, highly sophisticated digital spying operation...
SolarWinds, the software company at the center of a suspected Russian cyber attack on U.S. federal agencies, has deep roots in Austin. The company was …
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Known victims so far include the US Treasury, the US NTIA, and FireEye itself. Hackers believed to be operating on behalf of a foreign government have …
When FireEye Inc. discovered that it was hacked this month, the cybersecurity firm’s investigators immediately set about trying to figure out how …
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal authorities expressed increased alarm Thursday about a long-undetected intrusion into U.S. and other computer systems around the globe that officials suspect was carried out Russian...
A critical flaw in software used throughout government was reportedly used to breach a major security company and at least two federal agencies.
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UPDATED: The seized domain has been turned into a killswitch to prevent the SolarWinds hackers to escalate infections and make new victims. Microsoft …
Russian government hackers breached the Treasury and Commerce departments, along with other U.S. government agencies, as part of a global espionage campaign that stretches back months, according to people...
After only showing detection alerts, Microsoft moves to block trojanized SolarWinds apps from running, opening the door for some IT issues for some …
When Russian hackers first slipped their digital Trojan horses into federal government computer systems, probably sometime in the spring, they sat dormant for days, doing nothing but hiding. Then the code...
Thomas Bossert, former Homeland Security adviser to President Trump, in a Wednesday op-ed said there is evidence that Russia is to blame for what he called a "brazen" cyberattack on software company SolarWinds...
Some of America’s most deeply held institutional secrets may have been stolen in a large hacking operation being blamed on elite Russian government operatives. Intrigue surrounds what may have been exposed,...