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“Information on the attack is still relatively sparse, but the Department of Homeland Security said Thursday that it poses a significant risk to the federal government, states, local agencies and others, as well as key infrastructure and the private sector. wrote USA Today.
In practice, the attack has affected a large part of the United States and should have lasted a period of between eight and nine months.
The authority also claims that it will be “extremely complicated and challenging” to eliminate the threat that the attack has brought.
According to Senator Richard Blumenthal, the evidence points in the direction of Moscow, he said in an interview with CNN on Thursday night.
– Putin’s malicious code is now probably on our most sensitive computers and servers, waiting to take them down or steal their content.
– This may be the largest the attack that has hit the United States and we must investigate why we are so vulnerable.
One of the affected authorities is the National Nuclear Security Administration, which is responsible for the US arsenal of nuclear weapons, USA Today writes. The Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Commerce and the national telecommunications administration have also been affected.
According to the newspaper used those who carried out the attack on software provided by a company called Solar Winds that was accessed by first accessing Microsoft’s servers. There, the hackers found email addresses of accounts linked to Solar Winds. Malicious software was placed on numerous computer networks and the true scope of the attack is not yet known.
According to Senator Richard Blumenthal, who was briefed on the attack in two secret briefings, repairing the damaged computers and networks could cost hundreds of billions of dollars.
Another senator, Richard Durbin, calls the attack a declaration of war and the New York Times describes the attack as one of the biggest intelligence failures in modern times, as his own cyber command completely missed the attack and was unable to prevent it.
