Cyberattack on the United States The incredible and massive hacking against the government and that Trump has said nothing WORLD

It was late October when Dutchman Victor Gevers managed to access his Twitter account Donald Trump. He did just that on the seventh attempt. The key was incredibly predictable: maga2020, the lowercase abbreviation of its ‘Make America Great Again’ slogan. The president had no double check and almost like playing Gevers managed to break the security of the president of United States without the latter realizing it.

Trump he was lucky. Gevers is considered an ‘ethical hacker’ in the Netherlands and immediately alerted authorities to warn about how easy it was to access the head of the White House’s super-used Twitter account.

That same luck did not have the dozens of federal government agencies and secretaries who were victims for months of massive information hacking, One of the most serious suffered by any US administration and was recently confirmed on Thursday in the same Agency for Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security (CISA).

Among those affected are none other than those departments of state, treasury, trade, national security and energy, which is what protects nuclear weapons, Which would not have been compromised, according to officials in this portfolio.

Although CISA did not provide further details, it noted that the cyberattack “poses a serious threat to the federal government and state, local, tribal and territorial governments, as well as critical infrastructure entities and other industry organizations private “.

How did it happen?

According to what has transpired through US media, the attack began in March when hackers took advantage of an update to Orion monitoring software, developed by Solar Winds, Texas. This software is used by hundreds of governments around the world, as well as thousands of companies that oversee crucial infrastructure. The hacking continued for several months before being detected by FireEye, a computer security group.

Solar Winds reported that up to 18,000 customers, including large U.S. corporations and government agencies, had downloaded software updates, allowing hackers to access email exchanges.

The CISA report notes with concern that those responsible not only used Orion for the massive ‘hacking’, but that it has not yet been detected what other methods they may have resorted to.

Were they the Russians?

The investigation is now focused on finding out who was behind the cyberattack. Although the CISA did not want to point to any perpetrators, it noted that it is a “patient opponent, focused and with significant financial resources who carried out activities for a long time in the networks of victims.”

Still, “The New York Times” revealed that U.S. intelligence agencies have told Congress they believe the person responsible for the hacking is an elite Russian intelligence agency.

Accusation which, of course, has been denied by Vladimir Putin’s government. “If there have been attacks for many months and the Americans couldn’t do anything about it, it’s probably not worth blaming the Russians immediately and unfoundedly. We had nothing to do with it.”, Said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

SolarWinds noted that the operation was carried out “by a foreign nation-state and destined to be a limited attack, extremely directed and executed manually. “

Microsoft President Brad Smith also commented that the methods used bear the mark of a state actor.

“This issue is very worrying because it means that, despite all the safeguards, the systems in these offices are vulnerable. Over time, the FBI’s conclusions on what the source would have been will come out, but they will also have to take action against the vulnerability. of these systems, because there are not only Russians but also Chinese, then this poses a serious national security problem for the United States. “, International analyst Francisco Belaunde Mattosian tells this newspaper.

Trump in silence

Meanwhile, while the first accusations point to Russia as the source of the hacking, President Donald Trump has not come out to the front to make any comments in this regard. Rather, the White House chief continues to focus on claiming that he was the real winner of the last election.

The president’s reaction is not surprising considering that he benefited from Russian interference in the 2016 elections and because in his years in office he has preferred not to compete with his Russian counterpart.

“Trump is more focused on trying to change the outcome of the last election than on this issue, which he would rather not give importance to because it also involves the Russians.”, Points out Belaunde. “It’s a consistent attitude of Trump because from the beginning he said the issue of the Russians was a lie, because in fact the interference in the 2016 campaign favored him.”, Add.

Mitt Romney, a highly critical Republican senator of Trump, highlighted the “Alarming US Vulnerability” and has criticized “President Trump’s inexcusable silence and inaction”. “It’s as if Russian bombers have repeatedly flown over our entire country without being detected,” point to Twitter.

For his part, President-elect Joe Biden expressed in a statement that he had already informed his transition team about the case.

“There’s still a lot we don’t know, but what we do know is very worrying”, Noted the Democrat, who will take command on January 20. “My administration will make cybersecurity a priority at all levels of government and we will make the response to this cyberattack a priority as soon as we take possession.”

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