US President Joe Biden says the ‘attack’ on government computers will not go ‘unanswered’.
US President Joe Biden warned that the recent “cyber” attack on government computers had threatened U.S. national security and would not go “unanswered” once he becomes president.
“This attack poses a serious threat to our national security,” Biden said Tuesday at a news conference in Wilmington, Delaware, in which he blamed President Donald Trump for “reducing ”How bad the hack was and that it didn’t kill Russia.
“This attack on Donald Trump’s watch happened while he was not looking,” Biden said.
U.S. officials blame Russian spies for their infiltration and fear that the U.S. could lose vital secrets while also experiencing future cyberattacks. ‘could close major computer networks and weapon systems.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has denied that a Russian was involved in the cyberintrusion.
The data breach, which developed infiltration of more than 40 federal agencies and was not identified for months, was first reported by Reuters news agency and The Washington Post newspaper on December 13th.
It was “carefully designed and carefully managed … using solemn cybertools” and captured the U.S. “off guard and unprepared,” Biden said. U.S. intelligence agencies are scrambling to determine the depth of the damage and have demanded money from Congress to address the problem.
“We cannot allow this to go unanswered,” Biden said. “That means making it clear and public who is responsible for the attack and taking meaningful steps to hold them to account.”
Biden, who will take office on January 20, said he would impose “costs” on those who committed the cyberespionage once the U.S. government’s official decision is reached and said he expects to have bipartisan support. in the U.S. Congress for any action it may take.
It should be a “warning to our enemies,” he said.
Republican Senator Mitt Romney said in a U.S. television interview on Dec. 20 that Trump has a “blind spot” when it comes to Russia.
“The reality here is that the experts, the people who really understand how our systems work and how computers work and software, and so on, Thousands upon thousands of the CIA and NSA and the Department of Defense have confirmed that this came from Russia, “Romney told NBC TV network news.” This is a very devastating attack, and it went on for a long time, “Romney said.
Officials of the U.S. intelligence agency briefed members of key transportation committees on Dec. 16.
“The seriousness and length of this attack shows that we have yet to work hard and urgently to protect our vital information and networks,” said Adam Schiff House Democratic Committee of Information Committee Chairman in a statement. statement issued after the meeting.
Trump, who has been targeted by his unfounded claims of widespread deception in the November election, tweeted on Dec. 19 that the hack was not as important as reported by the media and said, “its everything is well under control “.
Trump went on to suggest without evidence that Chinese hackers, not Russia, may have been behind the cyberespionage campaign.
The Cyber Hack is far more in the Fake News Media than in reality. I have received full information and everything is under control. Russia, Russia, Russia is the main canntaireachd when anything happens because Lamestream, for mostly financial reasons, is in awe….
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) 19 December 2020
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had previously said in an interview on a conservative talk radio program that “we can clearly say that the Russians were involved in this activity”.