The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has confirmed that several US government agencies have been targeted by cyberattacks.
According to Neowin, the report says this cyberattack was designed to target an issue in the MOVEit software program. CISA assistant chief executive Eric Goldstein said it is providing assistance to several federal agencies that have had their systems compromised by hackers through a vulnerability in their MOVEit software while asserting the agency This is working urgently to understand the impacts and ensure timely remediation
So far there has been no official comment from CISA on which US government agencies were affected by this cyberattack. There is also no information on whether sensitive US government files were taken. CISA director Jen Easterly only told NBC News that the hackers responsible for the attack were “a group of ransomware .” well-known
Many experts believe the attacks came from CL0P – a group of hackers based in Russia. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and CISA issued a warning about CL0P last week after the group claimed to have discovered a vulnerability in MOVEIt and was ready to exploit it to attack information systems. through this software.
CL0P itself also claimed responsibility for cyberattacks on a number of governments and businesses by exploiting software vulnerabilities Some of the victims identified by the group include employees of the BBC, British Airways, oil giant Shell, the governments of the US states of Minnesota, and Illinois, among others