Trump Says Voting Machines May Have Been Breached by SolarWinds Hack During Election
President Donald Trump said on Saturday that voting machines may have been hacked during the November election.
“There could also have been a hit on our ridiculous voting machines during the election,” he wrote in a Twitter post.
The president apparently was referring to the SolarWinds hack which caused a number of government agencies to be compromised.
He said the hack is not as big as it’s reported.
“The Cyber Hack is far greater in the Fake News Media than in actuality,” he wrote. “I have been fully briefed and everything is well under control.”
What Data Center IT Security Pros Must Know About the SolarWinds Vulnerability The unprecedented attack, whose full scope is yet to be determined, gave those behind it access to some of the most sensitive enterprise systems.
On Sunday, we learned that federal agencies and other organizations had been penetrated by nation-state attackers, identified as Russian by multiple sources.
Though the definitive attribution for the attacks won t come for a while, we do know how the attack occurred.
SolarWinds Orion, a widely used network monitoring tool, had been compromised. In what s known as a supply chain attack, the attackers injected malware into the update code last March, and customers had been installing a Trojan each time they ran an update.
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FBI Says Significant Cyberattacks On US Federal Agencies Still Underway, Plans Response
Calling the recent cyberattacks on US federal agencies “a developing situation”, FBI, CISA and ODNI jointly said a coordinated response is being put together.
Calling the recent significant cyberattacks on US federal agencies “a developing situation”, FBI, CISA and ODNI jointly said on December 16 that they are putting together a unified response to the breaches while understanding its effect on the networks within the agencies. In a statement, late Wednesday (local time), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) said that they have formed a Cyber Unified Coordination Group (UCG) to coordinate the response of the entire government.
U.S. agencies hit in brazen attack by suspected Russian hackers
Alyza Sebenius, Kartikay Mehrotra and Michael Riley, Bloomberg News Security stands watch atop the U.S. Treasury Building as demonstrators march during a protest against policy brutality and racism on June 6, 2020 in Washington, DC. , Drew Angerer/Getty Images North America
In one of the most audacious hacks in recent memory, U.S. government agencies were attacked as part of a global campaign that exploited a flaw in the software updates of a U.S. company. The hackers are suspected to be part of a notorious hacking group tied to the Russian government, the Washington Post reported.