They warn that hacking against the United States is a “serious” threat

Washington – Federal authorities are more concerned about Jews for an intrusion that went unnoticed for some time into computer systems in the United States and elsewhere in the world that authorities suspect was perpetrated by Russian hackers.

The country’s cybersecurity agency warned of a “serious” risk to government and private networks.

The hacking involved federal agencies and “crucial infrastructure” in a sophisticated attack that was difficult to detect and will be difficult to undo, the Infrastructure Security and Cybersecurity Agency (CISA) said in an unusual advertising message. The Department of Energy acknowledged that it was among those affected.

The attack, if the authorities can prove that it was carried out by Russia as experts believe, creates a new foreign policy problem for the president. Donald Trump in his last days in office.

Trump, whose government has been criticized for removing the White House’s cybersecurity adviser position and downplaying Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, has not commented on the issue.

The president-elect Joe Biden, who will inherit the one that will question a complicated relationship between Washington and Moscow, spoke firmly about the hacking, and stated that both he and the vice president Kamala Harris “We will have as a priority the resolution of this infiltration from the moment we take office.”

“We need to interrupt and deter our opponents from launching significant cyberattacks in the first place,” he said. “We will do so, among other things, by imposing substantial costs on those who are responsible for malicious attacks, even in coordination with our allies and partners.”

“There is still a lot we don’t know, but what we do know is that it is a matter of great concern,” he said. He thanked government “public officials” who said they were “working tirelessly to respond to this attack.”

CISA officials did not respond to questions, so it was unclear what the agency was referring to as a “serious threat” or “crucial infrastructure” that may have been affected by the attack, which apparently start in March, the agency previously reported.

The Department of Homeland Security, the agency to which CISA belongs, defines this type of infrastructure as any other “vital” to the United States or its economy, an expanded category that could include power plants and financial institutions. .

The agency had said the perpetrators had used redesign management software from Texas-based SolarWinds to infiltrate computer redinformation. His new alert decided that hackers could have used other methods as well.

Over the weekend, amid reports that there was an intrusion on the Treasury and Commerce Department, CISA instructed all federal government civilian agencies to remove SolarWinds software from their servers. Cybersecurity agencies in Britain and Ireland will issue similar alerts.