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
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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
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Cyber crimes from criminal organizations has risen over the past few years many of these have been located overseas and most of them have been based in Eastern Europe that hire and direct hackers on what they want done. The statement has been made that the battle lines between cyber attacks by organized crime reaches far wider than just an institution's firewalls. One such organized cybercrime unit is the Russian Business Network they are one of the more well known criminal organizations delving into the global networks of the financial institutions.
On 22 January 2013, General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff released a white paper describing his vision for the Joint Information Environment (JIE) and how it would support operations in the years to come.1 This mandated transition is driving a reassessment of the most appropriate command and control (C2) structure to conduct operations within the domain. Attempts to achieve a standardized fully interoperable environment will only achieve limited success due to the innate variability and changing nature of technology, exacerbated by service unique capabilities and requirements as well as inconsistent funding. Existing C2 models either fail to address the uniqueness of operations in the cyber domain or otherwise fail to
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It is the responsibility of the management to hold secure the data and information that they hold on behalf of the clients that they host. This attack was particularly worrying since the corporation is entrusted with highly sensitive government data and the wealth of the American government military information which it should protect from intrusion from external sources. There are also valuable projects for the organization that it protects like
Cyber espionage is the act of attempting to penetrate an adversarial system for the purposes of extracting sensitive or protected data of either social or technical in nature. They are illicit activities that range from the commercial and economic to the political and strategic. They include small nuisance attacks to matters of high magnitude and importance like the national security and intelligence (Cornish 2012). Chinese cyber espionage has continued to escalate in recent years; it has continued to gain attention in many institutions including the media, the technology and information services industries, in scientific research and innovations, and as well as the general public. All these institutions are aware that china is taking part in the systematic development of cyber techniques that they intentionally use to invade international organizations, national governments, commercial companies, universities, and research institutes (Cornish, 2012).
None of the upper managers knew anything about the laptop being taken home and they did not know about it being stolen until about 2 weeks later. The laptop was stolen on May 03, 2006, and VA Secretary said “he wasn’t told about the burglary until May 16”, (YEN, H. 2006), nearly two weeks after it happen and he then informed the FBI on the 17th of May, and they then informed the public on the 22nd of May. That is almost 16 days after the breach that they informed the public, which I am sure the public knew before then from an outside source like the bank or Credit Card Company.
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Plains and battle focus. But allow them to obtain the number strengths and locations of ours and allied forces. As well as let them obtain information on individuals that supply are government with vital Intel on operations, plans and relations of our opposing forces and their allies. This is extremely detrimental to our operations due to the fact that the vital information source is lost and can cause loss of human lives, allies and allies. Lynn’s decision to declassify the incident reflects the Pentagon’s desire to raise concern over the threats facing the U.S. governments 15,000 networks and 7 million computing devices that are being probed thousands of times a day, experts said. This all relates to the fact that all it takes is
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Espionage has been a part of America since its earliest days. Today it is not surprising to hear of newer forms of spying like a cyber-attack on a federal agency or intrusions into nuclear power plants that could potentially cause grave damage. One current example of an espionage event officially named by the FBI as Operation Ghost Stories occurred around the 2010-time frame. The FBI ran an investigation of at least ten Russian spies that had embedded themselves in communities, universities, and jobs without anyone suspecting (FBI). These deep-cover spies used stolen identities to obtain a front of being “normal” Americans that to all but knew their true identities. They assimilated into the fabric of our country, and their intent was to gather intelligence and to strike at a strategic time that could occur years down the road. It is not wonder that organizations are concerned when they have so much riding on keeping their networks secure. One method that companies have used to keep their secrets more secure is by using an intranet.
The Washington Post also reports that hackers working for the Russian government successfully accessed the DNC’s computer system, giving them the ability to see opposition research and thousands of emails and chats between staffers. Trump makes headlines after he suggests that the DNC is responsible for the hacking in order to distract the media and the public from Clinton’s private email server.