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Internet security firm FireEye has revealed the enormous SolarWinds hack that left upwards of 250 agencies and businesses unprotected for weeks was launched from inside the US - but that hasn't stopped them from blaming Moscow.
The mega-hack, which affected 250 networks including US government agencies,
went undetected by Washington's security systems because it originated within the US, FireEye told the
New York Times. But while one might expect this revelation to pour cold water on the metastasizing, baseless claims that Russia was responsible for the intrusion, speculation about the country's role has only
increased.
The western media establishment has remained largely silent about the latest development in the SolarWinds saga, perhaps embarrassed to blame a foreign country for one's own inability to safeguard clients' data. Indeed, the US agencies supposedly tasked with detecting and preventing such attacks - the National Security Agency, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Pentagon's Cyber Command - all missed the breach. Instead, it took FireEye,
a firm that even the AP admits specializes in pinning American security fails on the Kremlin, to uncover the sprawling security snafu.
FireEye allegedly discovered the vulnerability only after those "state actors" broke into its own network to steal security tools, and the
Times acknowledged the company has "a history of lackluster security for its products." However, the same outlet's coverage suggests such a breach could only have been accomplished with high-level hacking tools backed by a state.
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