Pentagon hacked by russia

Four unnamed sources briefed on the matter said that SolarWinds' vast network of federal clients has prompted fears among U. On Sunday evening, SolarWinds said a "highly-sophisticated, targeted and manual supply chain attack by a nation state" could have infiltrated its software updates between March and June this year.

The hackers are suspected of utilizing a method, dubbed the "Supply Chain attack," in which malicious code is embedded into software updates provided to victims. The cyber spies are believed to have surreptitiously monitored federal staff emails for several months after entering the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's NTIA Microsoft Office platform. In that time, the hackers seized the computer credentials of Dempsey and hundreds of other senior officers -- the passwords and electronic signatures they used to sign on to the network.

The only way to stop the attack was to take the network down. The attack, which officials now blame on Russia, began with 30, e-mails sent to a West Coast university. The hack is said to have affected around 4, military and personnel staff working for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It was also noted by officials that no classified information was taken or put at risk.

Only unclassified email accounts were infiltrated. FireEye announced on Dec. Former NSA hacker Jake Williams, the president of the cybersecurity firm Rendition Infosec, said FireEye surely told the FBI and other federal partners how it had been hacked and they determined that Treasury had been similarly compromised.

FireEye responded to the Sony and Equifax data breaches and helped Saudi Arabia thwart an oil industry cyberattack — and has played a key role in identifying Russia as the protagonist in numerous aggressions in the burgeoning netherworld of global digital conflict.

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