The statement said the evidence collected so far indicates that “an actor from Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), probably of Russian origin, is responsible for most or all of the ongoing cyber compromises recently discovered, both from government and non-government networks. governmental. “
The attack, which affected computer networks of about half a dozen US government agencies and several private sector companies, is considered “an intelligence gathering effort”, but investigators are still working to understand its full scope, according to a statement from the Cyber Unified Coordination Group (UCG).
This group consists of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Cybersecurity and the Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the National Security Agency (NSA).
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