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WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that Russia is behind the major cyberattack that affected various US government agencies and also targets around the world.
“There has been a great effort to use part of a third-party software program to insert essential code into US government systems,” Pompeo told “The Mark Levin Show” on Friday. “Now we can say very clearly that the Russians” are behind that attack.
On Monday, Pompeo indicated Moscow’s involvement in these attacks, noting that the Russian government had made repeated attempts to penetrate US government networks.
The Microsoft group said Thursday night that it had informed more than 40 customers that they had been attacked by malware that security experts say could allow attackers unrestricted access to key government systems, power grids and other facilities.
Microsoft boss Brad Smith confirmed in a blog post that around eighty percent of affected customers are in the United States, along with others in Belgium, Britain, Canada, Israel, Mexico, Spain, and the Emirates. United Arab.
(AFP)
