President Donald Trump has not commented publicly on the matter, but Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on a conservative talk show Friday, 'I think it's the case that now we can say pretty clearly that it was the Russians that engaged in this activity.' Morgenstern said earlier that disclosing such details only helps U.S. 'Administration officials were unwilling to share the full scope of the breach and identities of the victims,' they said. The Democratic chairs of four House committees given classified briefings on the hack by the Trump administration issued a statement complaining that they 'were left with more questions than answers.' He would not provide details, 'but rest assured we have the best and brightest working hard on it each and every single day.' How do you get work done? You kind of just hope for the best,' he said.ĭeputy White House press secretary Brian Morgenstern told reporters Friday that national security adviser Robert O'Brien has sometimes been leading multiple daily meetings with the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the intelligence community, looking for ways to mitigate the hack. Imagine a computer network as a mansion you inhabit, and you are certain a serial killer as been there. The only way to be sure a network is clean is 'to burn it down to the ground and rebuild it,' Schneier said. This will be a long ride,' said Dmitri Alperovitch, co-founder and former chief technical officer of the leading cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. Agencies will be more inclined to conduct sensitive government business on Signal, WhatsApp and other encrypted smartphone apps. Many federal workers-and others in the private sector-must presume that unclassified networks are teeming with spies. It's not clear exactly what the hackers were seeking, but experts say it could include nuclear secrets, blueprints for advanced weaponry, COVID-19 vaccine-related research and information for dossiers on key government and industry leaders. We don't know what networks they are in, how deep they are, what access they have, what tools they left,' said Bruce Schneier, a prominent security expert and Harvard fellow. agencies and was among the victims, has already tallied dozens of casualties. FireEye, the cybersecurity company that discovered the intrusion into U.S.

Experts say there simply are not enough skilled threat-hunting teams to duly identify all the government and private-sector systems that may have been hacked.

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