USA & Europe Undergoing A Wave Of Cyber Attacks

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It is now clear that Russia is delivering a wave of cyber attacks against a number of European and numerous US federal agencies and organisations. Many US operations have recently been hacked, among them is the Department of Energy, which manages US nuclear infrastructure and it controls America’s nuclear policy.

The new campaign has not only been directed at the US government - a large numbers of businesses, universities and other organisations have also been affected with their data hacked and help to ransom.

The US Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has attributed these recent cyber attacks to a Russian ransomware group CLOP, rather than the Russian state, however this is a rather pointless distinction as to whether a Russian government employee, or a hired gun that does the actual hacking. CISA’s response comes as Progress Software, the US firm that makes the software exploited by hackers, said it had discovered a second vulnerability in the code that the company was working to fix.

CLOP, the ransomware gang allegedly responsible, is known to demand multimillion-dollar ransoms, but no ransom demands have been made of federal agencies, according to a senior US official.

Russian intelligence often hires professional cyber criminals to execute high-profile cyber operations, especially those targeting US high-value targets, to ensure that they have plausible deniability. Indeed, Russia currently has some of the most sophisticated and destructive arsenal of cyber weapons of any country.

Russia views cyber as a potent non-kinetic tool capable of disrupting an opponent’s society, by targeting his military, economy, and vital support structures such as hospitals, or even plunging an entire country into darkness, when war is going to happen.

Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and the university’s renowned health system said in a statement this week that “sensitive personal and financial information,” including health billing records may have been stolen in the hack.

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