πΊπΈ The NYT sticks with the party line, doesn't want to investigate; anonymous officials admit the United States military has cyber-attacked and penetrated Russian unclass and highly classified networks previously, installed peristant malware, and maintain C2 with said malware. π¬
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1345379346622640129
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"βEarly warningβ sensors placed by Cyber Command and the National Security Agency deep inside foreign networks to detect brewing attacks clearly failed. There is also no indication yet that any human intelligence alerted the United States to the hacking." -U.S. Gov't Official
"βEarly warningβ sensors placed by Cyber Command and the National Security Agency deep inside foreign networks to detect brewing attacks clearly failed. There is also no indication yet that any human intelligence alerted the United States to the hacking." -U.S. Gov't Official
- Intelligence operations are highly classified. If we are to believe the U.S. gov't was actually surprised by the SolarWinds hack, and didn't see it coming with their "sensors", those sensors would have been installed in multiple highly classified Russian intelligence networks.
- by using U.S. Cyber Command aka the United States military, to attack the Russian government networks, the United States military engaged in a cyber attack of the Russian Federation (..realistically has been done for years, I doubt this is new, they're just saying it out loud.)
"United States Cyber Command is one of the eleven unified combatant commands of the United States' Department of Defense. It unifies the direction of cyberspace operations, strengthens DoD cyberspace capabilities, and integrates and bolsters DoD's cyber expertise."
-Wikipedia
-Wikipedia
Can you imagine if the U.S. just blurted out they have U.S. military sabotage teams in Russia ready to compromise critical infrastructure? People would lose their minds. The language of cyber has so much meaningless doublespeak, the public can't understand what's admitted to.
How will Russian officials react to U.S. officials bragging to the New York Times that U.S. Cyber Command (the Pentagon) successfully attacked and compromised Russian gov't networks, installed persistent malware, which they still control; still failed to detect SolarWinds hack.
Another cute tidbit; if you say your smoke alarm didn't detect the fire, and the fire started in January; you installed your smoke alarm before that.
Extremely short sighted disclosure by American officials which has the potential to comprimise NSA & Cyber Command ops in Russia.
Extremely short sighted disclosure by American officials which has the potential to comprimise NSA & Cyber Command ops in Russia.
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