The incoming White House chief of staff for Joe Biden said on Sunday that the next administration’s response to a recently discovered cyberattack that targeted several government agencies will be more than “just sanctions.”
“In terms of the measures that a Biden administration would take in response to an attack like this — I want to be very clear — it’s not just sanctions,” Ron Klain told CBS. “It’s also steps and things we could do to degrade the capacity of foreign actors to repeat this sort of attack.”
Since the hack on the software company SolarWinds was first reported, many in the media and in Congress were quick to blame Russia. Despite a lack of evidence that Moscow was involved, the Biden administration is reportedly mulling ways to retaliate against Russia. Sources told Reuters that options being considered are financial penalties and hacks on Russia’s infrastructure.
When asked if he believed Russia was behind the cyberattack, Klain did not answer directly and said the current administration should handle attribution. On Saturday, President Trump made his first public comments on the hack on Twitter and appeared to downplay the incident.
“The Cyber Hack is far greater in the Fake News Media than in actuality. I have been fully briefed and everything is well under control,” he wrote.
The president also downplayed the idea that Russia was responsible, shifting the blame to his favorite foreign bogeyman. “Russia, Russia, Russia is the priority chant when anything happens because Lamestream is, for mostly financial reasons, petrified of discussing the possibility that it may be China (it may!).”
The cybersecurity firm FireEye first reported the hack. FireEye, Microsoft, and the US government are currently investigating the incident and have yet to attribute blame.
“Lamestream is, for mostly financial reasons, petrified of discussing the possibility that it may be China ”
Not quite right. Russia is code word for Israel. Israel has been desperate to be first to come up with a COVID vaccine hence the hacking.
A vast number of Israelis are from Russia. The US very deliberately created that situation, as it pushed hard to allow Russian emigration into Israel. It is at least 20% of the Israeli population, including very prominent people like the politician and former FM Avigdor Lieberman.
Yet we don’t want to talk about those ties to Russia. They are prominent in things like organized crime, and money laundering for Russian oligarchs, and much else.
Of course such extensive ties can include intelligence matters and technology like cyber crime.
Yet we don’t look, and refuse to admit even the potential.
When a repeat offender goes to trial for yet another offense against society, those prior convictions work against him. Why should Americans believe anything the media says anymore? The media is a REPEAT offender BIG TIME!
DC is hard at work fabricating, uh I mean “finding” evidence.
It doesn’t matter which side. Both are riddled with pathologIcal liers.
It doesn’t matter which side? It does now, since the GOP was cheated out of a Presidential win! The cheaters HAVE to lie to protect themselves while the victims need to find facts and TRUTH. I do agree, however, that BOTH sides will lie if it serves their agendas!
“I do agree, however, that BOTH sides will lie if it serves their agendas!”
Except of course when it comes to Presidential elections. Then only the democrats lie since King Donald has said so.
Why is FireEye, an alleged security company, still in business ?
Friends in govt. that might be stock holders.
the decayed BLM/LGBT plywood empire incompetent and failing –tiresome
It’s good to see joe biden is part of Amerikas problem and there will not be any change to foreign policy. Sad
If it was one of the state actors we’re tormenting, it was likely meant as a notice of what pain they are capable of inflicting, that pushed to a point they will scramble Wall St. or turn off the energy grid, or black out the satellite communication system, etc.. It may be we’ve entered a world of weaponry that makes ballistics “buggy whips”, creating panic among our merchants of death.
If only Iran were capable.
So, the US will initiate a full cyberwar, with a “counterattack” on Russian infrastructure?
What will happen after that? Wars don’t end after the first counterstrike. That is when they start.
Who might win that war? Note, open economy vs controlled economy is not an equal footing for all-out cyberwar. This may not be the US strength, just because we can do a strike.
Yes, I am reminded of the story of the spying USS Donald Cook having its electronics knocked out by a Russian buzz over. Scared the bejeebers out of the sailors.
Ready, shoot, aim… Repeat. It’s just like all the exciting shows on tv. Surely whatever will mesmerize an audience will also happen to be smart foreign policy, somehow, if any professionals are involved to care about such things. Excellent distraction potential.