Russian government spies are behind a broad hacking campaign that has breached U.S. agencies and a top cyber firm https://t.co/YgR61Rin77
— Suburban Guerrilla Ω (@SusieMadrak) December 13, 2020
Incident comes shortly after Trump administration fired heads of DHS’ Cybersecurity Infrastructure Protection Agency. There is also no current top cyber official.
— Chris Bing (@Bing_Chris) December 13, 2020
Multiple agencies wrapped up in the investigation.
Keep an eye on story (updating): https://t.co/r5BN9gxumC
Other then coming to an international agreement on what is and what is not acceptable in the world of hacking there isn’t much anybody can do about any of this except to set up effective fire walls and lock all the backdoors.
Trump has used the Treasury Department and the Commerce Department to wage economic war against Iran, Venezuela, China, Russia and the EU for years.
So it’s not at all surprising that international actors would be interested in knowing what’s coming at them in the future.