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Russian hackers attack US treasury

US department of treasury. [Photo: treasury.gov]

The United States Treasury last month repelled cyber attacks by a pro-Russian hacker group, Reuters reported quoting a treasury official.

However, the incident caused little to no disruption and as the US confirmed that the department’s stronger approach to financial system cybersecurity was working,

The report quoting Todd Conklin, cybersecurity counselor to Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo, said the treasury has attributed the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks to Killnet, the Russian hacker group that claimed responsibility for disrupting the websites of several US states and airports in October.

The incident, not previously reported, occurred a couple of days before similar attacks from Killnet on U.S. financial services firms, Conklin told a financial services industry and regulator conference on cyber security, the news agency report said.

The report quoting Killnet claimed that on October 11 that it had attacked JPMorgan Chase and Co’s network infrastructure, but the bank reported no impact on its operations.

Conklin described the attack on the Treasury as “pretty low-level DDoS activity targeting Treasury’s critical infrastructure nodes.”

He was also quoted saying that the Treasury shared internet protocol (IP) addresses used in the attack quickly as new procedures have been adopted under the Biden administration.

 

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