The Commerce Department, as well as the Treasury, Defense Department and other federal agencies, were the target of Russian hackers.Credit...Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA, via Shutterstock Federal officials issued an urgent warning on Thursday that the hackers who had penetrated deep into government systems also used other malware — and different attack techniques — that posed “a grave risk to the federal government.” The warning from the Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity arm gave no details but confirmed suspicions voiced earlier this week by FireEye, a cybersecurity firm, that there were almost certainly other pathways that had been found for attack. President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. quickly released a statement stressing the gravity of the breach and promising strong action on cybersecurity, including possible retaliation against foreign attackers. “A good defense isn’t enough,” Mr. Biden said in a statement. “We need to disrupt and deter our adversaries from undertaking significant cyber attacks in the first place.” He added: “We will do that by, among other things, imposing substantial costs on those responsible for such malicious attacks, including in coordination with our allies and partners. Our adversaries should know that, as President, I will not stand idly by in the face of cyber assaults on our nation.” The discovery vastly complicates the challenge for federal investigators as they search through computer networks used by the Treasury, the Defense Department, the Commerce Department and nuclear laboratories, trying to assess the damage and understand what the hackers had stolen. But it also raises the possibility that the goal of the hackers went beyond espionage, and that the Russian actors, once inside the systems, could alter data or use their access to take command of computer systems that run industrial processes. So far, though, there has been no evidence of that happening. The alert also ramped up the urgency of government warnings. After playing the incident down — President Trump has said nothing and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo deflected the hacking as one of the many daily attacks on the federal government, suggesting China was the biggest offender — the new alert left no doubt the assessment had changed. https://unworldoceansday.org/fr/user/7205 https://unworldoceansday.org/user/7205 https://unworldoceansday.org/user/7209 https://unworldoceansday.org/index.php/user/7209 https://unworldoceansday.org/fr/user/7212 https://unworldoceansday.org/user/7212 https://unworldoceansday.org/user/7214 https://unworldoceansday.org/index.php/user/7214 https://unworldoceansday.org/user/7216 https://unworldoceansday.org/index.php/user/7216 https://unworldoceansday.org/user/7219 https://unworldoceansday.org/index.php/user/7219 https://unworldoceansday.org/index.php/user/7224 https://unworldoceansday.org/user/7224 https://unworldoceansday.org/index.php/user/7225 https://unworldoceansday.org/user/7225 https://www.onlinegdb.com/fork/BIXs-rV08 https://paiza.io/projects/t9QuFRL3n-aWpSx_8sT70g?language=php https://steemkr.com/newmax/@cucucahyati/transition-live-updates-stimulus-deal-appears-within-reach-but-final-product-could-limit-biden-in-the-future https://caribbeanfever.com/photo/albums/biden-picks-deb-haaland-to-lead-the-interior-departmen Days ago, Microsoft and FireEye took emergency action, shutting down the channels through which attackers penetrated the networks. But that action is of no help to those organizations that have already been penetrated, since the first software was corrupted with malware in March.