How does this keep happening? It’s a fair question. Why hasn’t President Biden come out to denounce the most recent wave of Chinese and Russian cyberattacks —our enemies need to know there will be consequences. Attacks like this should never happen.
Biden knows who carried out the attacks —and nothing is being done.
This is no way to run a foreign policy. This is no way for the world’s number one superpower to react when attacked by its biggest rivals, right?
But President Biden and his administration have been lenient when it comes to China, especially: the spy balloons; the intellectual property theft; the infiltration of our major universities —they even killed the Trump-era China Initiative.
So what exactly happened this time?
From The Daily Wire:
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) says they are “providing support to several federal agencies that have experienced intrusions affecting their MOVEit applications.”
It was not immediately clear which government agencies had been impacted or who the culprit was, although a “Russian-speaking ransomware group” reportedly claimed credit for the campaign, which targeted other entities around the world.
CISA Director Jen Easterly told MSNBC that the software that was targeted is used by agencies and companies around the world.
“Separately, the U.S. cybersecurity firm Mandiant, which is owned by Google, said on Thursday that it believes state-backed Chinese hackers conducted a massive cyberattack on hundreds of private and public networks around the world,” DW reports.
“Mandiant assesses with high confidence that [a suspected China-nexus actor] conducted espionage activity in support of the People’s Republic of China,” the organization said in a statement. “While Mandiant has not attributed this activity to a previously known threat group at this time, we have identified several infrastructure and malware code overlaps that provide us with a high degree of confidence that this is a China-nexus espionage operation.”
So both Russia and China are stepping up cyberattacks, seemingly growing more brazen each time. But Easterly says this kind of thing is “pretty common.”
“You know, these vulnerabilities are pretty common in software, and our job is to work with businesses to ensure they have the resources and tools to mitigate that risk,” she said. “Right now, we’re focused specifically on those federal agencies that may be impacted, and we’re working hand-in-hand with them to be able to mitigate that risk. We understand that there are businesses, though, around the world. It’s another ransomware actor known as Clop Ransomware, and they’re basically taking data and looking to extort it.”
We can’t allow the perception that these attacks on America and her agencies around the world are commonplace. This is what weakness on the world stage looks and sounds like. This is the result of allowing spy balloons to casually cruise over top-secret military bases.
This is the Biden Administration.
