{"id":117419,"date":"2020-12-20T01:37:46","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T09:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/white-house-acknowledges-reports-of-cyberattack-on-u-s-treasury"},"modified":"2020-12-20T01:37:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T09:37:46","slug":"white-house-acknowledges-reports-of-cyberattack-on-u-s-treasury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/white-house-acknowledges-reports-of-cyberattack-on-u-s-treasury","title":{"rendered":"White House acknowledges reports of cyberattack on U.S. Treasury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/white-house-acknowledges-reports-of-cyberattack-on-u-s-treasury.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post linked the hack, which occurred over the weekend, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/russian-government-spies-are-behind-a-broad-hacking-campaign-that-has-breached-us-agencies-and-a-top-cyber-firm\/2020\/12\/13\/d5a53b88-3d7d-11eb-9453-fc36ba051781_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">to a group working for the Russian foreign intelligence service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI is currently investigating the group, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/storyline\/hacking-in-america\/cozy-bear-explained-what-you-need-know-about-russian-hacks-n648541\" target=\"_blank\">known among private-sector cybersecurity firms as APT29 or Cozy Bear<\/a>. The hackers are also believed to have breached the State Department, Joint Chiefs of Staff and the White House networks during the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<p>The latest revelation comes less than a month after President Donald Trump fired Christopher Krebs, the nation\u2019s top cybersecurity official.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post linked the hack, which occurred over the weekend, to a group working for the Russian foreign intelligence service. The FBI is currently investigating the group, known among private-sector cybersecurity firms as APT29 or Cozy Bear. The hackers are also believed to have breached the State Department, Joint Chiefs of Staff and the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}