Summary
A Chinese state-sponsored hacker group breached the U.S. Treasury Department by exploiting a vulnerability in the third-party cybersecurity provider BeyondTrust.
The attackers used a stolen key to override security measures, accessing departmental workstations and unclassified documents.
The Treasury Department, alerted on December 8, reported no evidence of ongoing access.
The department is working with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the FBI to investigate the breach, which highlights risks tied to third-party software vulnerabilities.
Sounds like their contractors have shoddy security practices.
Also, stop using windows in high security environments!
I mean, windows itself can be reasonably secured. All the “security” crapware that CxO’s get sold by shysters become the attack vectors.
I guess we never fight back? Maybe sink a fucking ship or 10? Like the ones fucking with our ally, the Philippines?
All these fuckers do is test and test and test. Results? Nada. We do nothing. They escalate. We do nothing, “condemn” their actions. Same goes for Russia.
The US has the most powerful military on the planet. What for? Either fold up, draw in, fight defense, or strike back. Diplomatic actions are not working.
Diplomatically recognising Taiwan/RoC would probably be enough, or stationing a carrier group in near by waters to defend it.
CPC would lose their shit.
Sinking a ship is a dramatic overreaction to accessing unclassified Treasury documents.
We spy on China as well, we just don’t make announcements like “in retaliation we’re going to continue hacking their shit too”.
Besides, if china needs to know anything actually important they can just ask putin to ask any member of trump’s cabinet.
looks at the master list of 3rd world countries with US installed regimes and dictators
“Man we don’t utilize our military might enough, we should escalate to war with our single global competitor”
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Maybe China can free our people from student debt? Lol. Not lol.
Inb4 they hack nuclear silos.
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I would hope they are not networked
Not networked and running on some legacy-as-fuck software. Saw quite a bit of this working in hospitals. You would be surprised how many medical devices are still running Windows XP.
From 2014
part of the computer system responsible for controlling the launch of the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles relied on data loaded from 8-inch floppy disks
