President Trump on Saturday claimed that China could be “behind a huge cybatech on US government systems” – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the attack by the Russians was “clearly”.
Trump condemned the attack, which a U.S. official called “the worst hacking case in U.S. history” because it was “bigger than the reality in the fake news media.”
Pompeo: Russians There is ‘very clear’ behind the government hack
He tweeted, “I’ve been given full information and everything is under control.” “When anything happens, Russia, Russia, Russia is the priority chant because Lemstream, mostly for financial reasons, thinks it’s possible to discuss China (maybe!).”
He then used the attack to escalate his claims that he had not lost the Biden election if elected President, claiming that “even our ridiculous voting machines were hit during the election, which is now clear that I won big Making more corrupt embarrassment for the USA. “
Trump has disputed the election results, which have been proven to be won by Biden, and he has launched numerous seemingly unsuccessful legal challenges in major swing states.
But his claim that China could be responsible for the attack contradicts Pompeo, who linked the Kremlin to the attack on Friday.
“[T]Pompeo said on the Mark Levine show, “U.S. There was a significant effort to use third-party software to essentially embed code within government systems, and now it appears to be the systems of private companies, corporations, and governments around the world. “”
“This was a very significant effort, and I think it is in this case that we can now clearly say that it was the Russians who were engaged in this activity,” he said.
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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said in a warning message on Thursday that the hack tampered with federal agencies and “complex infrastructure” in which a sophisticated attack was carried out that was difficult to detect and would be difficult to undo.
There are currently reports of compromises with elements from the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Defense. Aiming at the track and commerce department, the hack would have lasted months.
MicroSoft, which has helped respond to the breach, announced late Thursday that it had identified more than 40 government agencies, think tanks, NGOs and IT companies that had been infiltrated by hackers.
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He said four of the five were in the United States – about half the tech companies – with victims in Canada, Mexico, Belgium, Spain, the United Kingdom, Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
Fox News’ Bradford Bates, Peter Aitken and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
