preview

Joint Chiefs Of Staff Essay

Decent Essays

Unruly Hackers Attack Joint Chiefs of Staff

It has been reported that a team of hackers, who previously targeted the DOJ and the White House, has hacked The Joint Chiefs of Staff which is a body of senior U.S. military leaders.

Computerworld.com reported on 6th August, 2015 stating that the hacking group which targeted unclassified email systems of the U.S. Department of State and the White House is supposed to have also compromised a network used by the Joint Chiefs of Staff which is a body of senior U.S. military leaders.

The group said that their system was compromised in the last week of July 2015 affecting around 4,000 staff who works at the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

It was observed that spear phishing emails with customized messages …show more content…

He said that he had no information about the so-called attack on the Joint Chiefs of Staff network but his company had discovered a large number of attacks against US national security agencies and commercial companies by a hacker group known as “Cozy Bear” which had clear connection with the Russian government.

Alperovitch added that Cozy Bear engaged in different cyber-attacks ranging from spear-phishing to more refined and complex attacks.

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter blamed Russian hackers early this year for penetrating a network of unclassified Pentagon and in April, officials of U.S. confirmed that Russian hackers were responsible for a series of damaging intrusions which penetrated sensitive parts of computer system in the White House. Officials said while investigating that although hackers could only access unclassified systems but they had access to sensitive information about daily schedule of the

Get Access