take s teixeria took photos of documents and posted them on 3450ed. meade. the u.s. as cessing the damage from a cyberattack that impacted several goempts agencies. the breach is blamed on russian hackers. natasha bertran is in washington with details. reporter: several u.s. federal government agencies have been hit in a global cyberattack in which hackers have managed to exploit a flaw in a widely used software. the agency told cnn thursday that it is providing support to several federal agencies that have experienced intrusions affecting their move it applications and is working to understand impacts and ensure timely remediation. move it is a software that hackers appear to have found a vulnerability in and began good flighting in late may.
that the u.s. plane shakes a little bit and u.s. officials say that was turbulence caused by this close call. natasha bertran is tracking all this for us. what else are you hearing from u.s. officials about all this now? reporter: yeah, u.s. officials are strongly condemning what they have described as a really risky and unnecessarily aggressive move by the chinese to intercept this american spy plane, and rc 135 arrive vet joint reconnaissance aircraft which is an come ducting a mission when the chinese fighter jet cut directly in front of the nose.come ductig a mission when the chinese fighter jet cut directly in front of the nose. it was manned and it caused turbulence from the wake of that chinese fighter jet. so the u.s. is saying this was dangerous and this comes at a time of heightened tensions between the u.s. and china. and this is the second time at least in just a couple months that china has done something
they can send them a lot sooner, boris. natasha bertran for us in oklahoma. going to make a difference for ukraine. with us now to discuss this is a cnn contributor and our former moscow bureau chief. also with us, cnn military analyst cedric layton. good afternoon to both of you. jill, i want to start with you. we know that the secretary of state, tony blinken said that xi is providing diplomatic cover for putin. we know that xi wants to be viewed as this peacemaker around the world, they both want to disrupt the current world order. with that as the backdrop, what do you make of today s developments and this new declaration of furthering this partnership together. i would have to say, to me, the theme is, read the fine print. there are a lot of words that were said today, very broad statements. for example, this is, you
incidents to try to get a better sense for what these objects were and what they are actually capable of. natasha bertran, cnn, washington. cnn transportation analyst mary scavo joins us. we heard from the canadian defense minister saying it was the first instance of norad downing an object in canadian air space. her point was that we shouldn t underestimate the importance of this. how do you parse that? well, i agree completely. it s very important that we actually have to down objects in our air space. but probably more important than that is we re dining objects and we really don t know and haven t identified what they were yet. and depending upon which briefing you review, some of them say they did enter our air space before we were actually aware of them entering the united states air space, which
just on friday. the discussion really did center around how best to secure the arctic. arctic security has been on the agenda and will continue to be on the agenda when president biden meets with justin trudeau. likely sometime in march. i mean, given what s going on here, they re going to want to take a look at what the debris is and what clues they can possibly get as to what s going on. all right. paula newton, thank you very much. natasha bertran is also with me. you ve been following this all afternoon, as well as the incident that occurred yesterday over the skies of alaska. you have new reporting over what occurred yesterday. and i guess it might yield some clues as to what we re doing today. the pilots were giving different accounts as to what they were looking at before that object was shot down. on thursday night we were told the pilots were sent up in f-35 jets to see what it was hanging out over alaska,