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United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. AFP Yonhap News
Before the inauguration of the next US administration, Joe Biden, as cases of massive piracy against federal government agencies such as the US Treasury, Commerce and State Departments expanded, the Secretary of US state Mike Pompeo pointed to Russia as the backstory.
According to the Washington Post (WP) of the United States and Japan and the AFP news agency on the 18th (local time), Minister Pompeo said in an interview with ‘Mark Levin Shaw’ that day: “I can say quite clearly that Russia was involved in this movement. “
Recently, in the US, the Department of State, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Homeland Security, and the National Institute of Health (NIH) were reported to have been damaged by cyber attacks believed which are attributable to Russia. Politico, a political media outlet, cited officials and said it had obtained evidence of hackers’ access to the network of the Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), which manages the storage of nuclear weapons under the US Department of Energy. .
Furthermore, on the 17th, Microsoft (MS), a global information technology (IT) company, is known to have been penetrated by a large-scale hacking attack presumed to be Russia, and the damage is gradually increasing. Although the exact scale has not yet been determined, there are observations that it could be recorded as the “worst trick”.
US President-elect Joe Biden said in a statement the day before: “My administration will put cybersecurity at the top of all levels of government” and “Enemies must know that I will not stand still as president.”
Although the US investigating authorities did not publicly point out behind the hack, it is presumed that they were actions by Russia both inside and outside the political realm. Minister Pompeo also suggested intervention by Russian intelligence agencies on the 14th. WP said: “Minister Pompeo did not specify which agency was hacked, but officials see it as actions by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Agency (SVR)” . However, the Russian government expressed its position that it was “unfounded” about the controversy.
Meanwhile, Microsoft believes that the damage caused by this hack is spreading outside the US In a blog post that day, Brad Smith, president of Microsoft, said that around 40 Microsoft customers suffered damage, of of which 80% came from the United States. In addition, 7 countries, including Belgium, the United Kingdom, Canada, Israel, Mexico, Spain and the United Arab Emirates, have also confirmed damage and added that “the number of victims and regions will continue to increase.”
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