An attack that will change the way the cybersecurity department deals

 The largest #cyber-hacking campaign in the history of America was announced, as the Department of Energy, specifically the department responsible for nuclear weapons, was hacked. Within this article, we will report what happened during the last period, knowing that the hack is still under investigation.

The events of the matter began in March of the year 2020 AD, and without any introduction, #malware was introduced into a system called Orion, which is affiliated with Solar Winds , which provides technical services related to protecting and monitoring networks and several other systems. 

The goal of developing malware is to gain access to many sensitive systems in the American government by a party who is not authorized to access these programs and view e-mail and secret conversations within this organization, and withdraw a lot of information for a period of more than nine months and without An outage, in a precedent that is considered the first of its kind and size in American history, and this #hack affected the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Energy, and many other sensitive institutions.

 The official report from the famous American newspaper Politico reveals this event in the following link: Report 

You can also find the official interview from the VOX network with Columbia University cybersecurity expert Jason Healy, who spoke about the seriousness of the attack that was able to paralyze the American system. 

Microsoft was also hacked, according to which other victims of the #cyberattack were identified in several countries around the world, and the damage caused by this hack is being estimated, but this matter requires a lot of time and work and the intervention of several parties to determine the actual damage, which certainly cost and will cost. Billions of dollars to be repaired. But until now, it has not been confirmed which government electronic systems were hacked, as it may involve building a completely new network and systems.

US President Joe Biden told Bloomberg that he will deal with those responsible for this attack strongly and firmly and will place #cybersecurity as a top priority in the government.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-22/biden-says-hack-of-us-shows-trump-failed-at-cyber-security 

The possibility that this hack was from external parties was mentioned, but it is certain that if the organization, company, or ministry anywhere in the world is still using the Orion system, a comprehensive examination of the system must be done. It has become necessary to intervene or seek assistance from the cyber incident response team urgently to ensure that your facility’s information has not been hacked due to the same vulnerability. You can also obtain more information about what to do, by clicking on the following link, here .  

The form of wars in the world has changed, as they are waged through internationally recognized #cyberwars, so that wars are classified into five types (land, sea, air, space, and cyber).

For more information, you can check out the #Cyberx (Business Continuity) episode, which discussed how to start developing a business continuity plan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOJlAwTP0s4 

The #Cyberx episode “How to protect your facility” from hacking and working on precautionary measures in the facility