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US President Donald Trump (left) and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff – Photo: CNN
Following in the footsteps of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Representative Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and a member of the Democratic Party, has just blamed Russia for the case. network attack recently discovered large-scale targeting US federal agencies.
“From what I’ve seen, I think it must be Russia,” Adam Schiff said on MSNBC on December 20, commenting on the cyber attack.
The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee also criticized US President Donald Trump for suggesting on Twitter that China could be the culprit. According to Radio RT (Russia), Adam Schiff is one of the people in the US House of Representatives who has criticized Trump the most.
Schiff said Trump’s comments on Twitter were “detrimental” to the national security of the United States. In a previous Twitter post, Schiff criticized Trump’s indictment of China and not Russia as “a betrayal of our national security.”
In related developments, on December 20, Ron Klain, who was chosen by Joe Biden to become the White House Chief of Staff, said that the Biden administration’s reaction to the cyber attack will not be just an order. punishment.
“It will not be just sanctions. We will probably take a lot of measures and things to reduce the ability of outside actors to participate in this type of attack,” said Ron Klain. on CBS Radio.
Sources familiar with the Reuters news agency told Reuters that among the options considered by the Biden administration to punish Russia for the attack were “financial sanctions and retaliatory cyberattacks against its infrastructure.” Russia”.
Hackers have attacked the computer networks of several major US agencies, including the Department of Defense, Foreign Affairs, Commerce, Finance, Homeland Security, and the National Nuclear Security Administration. many private companies. The attack is said to have been underway since March, but only discovered in December 2020.
The United States Agency for Cyber Security and Infrastructure (CISA) Without determining who was behind the attack, but Cybersecurity experts said Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) launched the attack after the institute drives the extremely complex nature of the attack.
Russia confirmed that it was not involved in the cyber attack. Speaking at an event to mark the centenary of the SVR intelligence agency, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he was impressed with the agency’s “professional activities”.
Hackers attacked the “heart” of the US government.
