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“The cyberattack on US government institutions also involved no less than 200 institutions around the world,” Bloomberg said in a report released Saturday.
The agency cited, according to expert sources and estimates, that the investigation believes that the hacker “incorporated malicious code” into the software of the US company Solar Winds, which transferred it to some 18,000 clients, making them vulnerable to attacks. According to three sources, “it was established during the investigation that the hackers carried out direct measures to gain unauthorized access to the computer systems of at least 200 different institutions.”
The agency added: “The motives of the hackers are still unknown and it is unclear what exactly they discovered or stole through their infiltration of computer networks.”
In a joint statement released Wednesday, the FBI and the US National Intelligence Service are reported to have reported a major attack on the federal government’s computer networks. For his part, US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo hinted, in a press interview on Friday, “Russia’s involvement in the incident.” As for the current president of the United States, Donald Trump, he said that the media exaggerated the magnitude of the incident. He did not agree with the hacker working for Moscow, pointing to “the possibility that China is involved in the incident.”
Source: Russia today
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