The U.S. publicly denounces Russia for its cyber attack on its energy sector
According to theguardian reports, on Thursday, the Trump administration accused the Russian government of launching a cyber attack on the U.S. power grid, and the activity lasted at least two years. This is the first time that the United States publicly denounced Russia’s invasion of the U.S. energy infrastructure. In a security warning issued on Thursday, the U.S. government pointed out that from March 2016 or earlier, Russian government hackers tried to attack many key infrastructures such as US power, nuclear power, commercial facilities, aviation, and manufacturing.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Kevin McIntyre stated in the document that the Russian government hackers launched a “multi-stage intrusion action” on the network of small business facilities in the United States. During this period, they used malicious software, phishing, and other means to obtain remote access to energy. Department network permissions. However, these two government departments did not specify the name of the company or factory that was attacked.
This direct condemnation of the Moscow side showed that the Trump administration began to take action on Russia’s renewed attacks on other countries’ networks. Just a few weeks ago, senior U.S. intelligence officials pointed out that the Kremlin believes that they can launch hacking operations in the West without any penalty.
In response, Russia responded on Thursday that it will launch retaliatory measures. Prior to this, Russia had always denied its allegations of invading the infrastructure network of other countries.
