The worst is yet to come, as the Department of Homeland Security continues to unravel the damage caused by the cyberattack on SolarWinds server software that puts federal and private computer systems at “serious risk.”
The set of intrusions, which began in March, “has not yet been discovered,” Homeland Security’s Cyber Security and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) admitted in a bulletin Thursday.
“We are still decompressing exactly what it is,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo acknowledged on Friday in an interview with Mark Levin, where he blamed Russia for the first time since the news of the raid on 13 of December.
Several federal agencies, including the Pentagon, the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Safety Administration, and the same departments of commerce, treasury, and national security, were committed for noncompliance, along with an unknown number of private corporations, including Cisco Systems and Cox. Communications.
President Trump has been criticized by members of Congress, including members of his own party such as Senator Mitt Romney (R-Utah), for “not … protesting aggressively and protesting and taking punitive action” against Moscow, he said Romney Friday.
But the administration is working behind the scenes, Pompey said.
“There are a lot of things you’d love to say,‘ Boy, I’m going to say this, ’” he said. “But a smarter action to protect the American people is to do your business quietly and stand up for freedom. “.
The hackers, who used the widely used SolarWinds server software, “demonstrated patience, operational security and complex commercial vessels in these intrusions,” the CISA newsletter said, and neutralizing the threat “will be highly complex and challenging.”