The agencies that maintain the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile are reportedly preparing to notify Congress that they have evidence showing their systems were breached by foreign hackers in a monthslong cyberespionage campaign that came to light this week.
Officials from National Nuclear Security Administration and its parent agency, the Energy Department, were "coordinating notifications" about the breach, which they said also affected the Federal Energy Regulation Commission, to House and Senate energy and armed services committeeson Thursday, according to Politico.
Hackers were "able to do more damage at FERC than the other agencies," and officials were able to obtain evidence of "highly malicious activity," the report said.
The DOE acknowledged that its "business networks" were compromised in the attack but rebuffed claims that its investigation has yielded evidence that the NNSA was affected by the attack.
"The Department of Energy is responding to a cyber incident related to the Solar Winds compromise in coordination with our federal and industry partners," DOE spokeswoman Shaylyn Hynes told the Washington Examiner. "The investigation is ongoing and the response to this incident is happening in real time. At this point, the investigation has found that the malware has been isolated to business networks only, and has not impacted the mission essential national security functions of the Department, including the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)."
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/nuclear-weapons-agency-hacked-solarwinds-cyberattack
The article above is one of many that have been posted on our news feeds. This year has been a rough one and I am hoping next will be better but things are not looking good for peace around the world. We need to find a way to bring peace and prosperity around the world. We need to come together as a species and figure out a way to make our species grow.
These times are troubling and things seem to be happening in a strategic order or is it just me. First Donald was put in office and then at the end of his term there is a virus released. Now China and Russia are doing things in the background and our government just seems to be staying quite and hopefully planning and strategizing because I do not think good things are coming.
This is just my opinion and do not take this to heart until you do your research and figure it out yourself.
Good luck everyone and be safe out there. I think things are only going to get worse. I am hoping for the best but preparing for the worst.
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