At least 250 federal agencies and leading US businesses have suffered from Russian-backed hackers by filtering into the surveillance and control platform 'SolarWinds Orion.’ The response of the Russian government comes after earlier statements from the current Biden administration.
New officers from the White House said that they are reserved with the freedom to respond to cyberattacks, and they would want to do so in answer to the questions about their plans for SolarWinds. The secretary of the press said that “We’ve spoken about this previously… of course we reserve the right to respond at a time and manner of our choosing to any cyberattack.”
The reaction from Moscow to this statement was given hours later by the Federal Security Service, an internal security and intelligence body in Russia, the National Coordinating Centre for Computer Accidents. It took the form of a protection newsletter.
The brief statement included a list of 15 best practice safety measures that companies have to follow to remain safer online, and cited the statements of the Biden government which are considered as a threat. The best practice in the warning is to include factory safety guidance and few businesses and even the least qualified safety, as noted by the experts.
In reaction to Biden's hostile declaration earlier in the day further security warnings were released. In the SolarWinds incident, Russia has declined its stance. Following the event of SolarWinds, the Biden administration has dedicated $9 billion to cyber defense. Recently, at least 24 large corporations, including tech giants including Intel, Cisco, VMware, and Nvidia have been hacked.
In Orion applications sold by the IT management firm SolarWinds, the alleged Russian hackers built and collected the confidential data of a number of U.S. government departments and firms. The original report was that 18,000 government and private networks were hacked by Russian hackers.
