SolarWinds Hackers Breached Thousands of US Department of Justice Email Accounts, Washington Says

The news follows last month’s malware attack on software firm SolarWinds, which exposed private data from companies and government agencies due to a vulnerability in the the firm’s Orion platform.

Thousands of emails from the US Department of Justice (DoJ) have been accessed in the SolarWinds hack, it has been confirmed.

The news comes just days after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and numerous others issued a joint statement on Tuesday accusing a “likely Russian” actor of launching the attacks.

According to media reports, roughly 3,500 email accounts were compromised in the massive hacking campaign.

Washington accused the Russian government of launching the attack in December, which Moscow has sharply denied.

The hack is widely seen as a blow to US government cybersecurity capabilities, which failed to protect sensitive data from the US National Nuclear Security Administration and US Department of Energy, among others, the report added.

Numerous companies such as Cisco, Nvidia, Deloitte, Dominion Voting Systems and others were targeted in the attacks.

According to whistleblowing publication WikiLeaks, the US Central Intelligence Agency can conceal the origin of hacking attacks via a tool called Marble Framework, appearing to originate in Russia, China, North Korea, Iran and others.

Sourse: sputniknews.com