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Donald Trump Is Talking About Everything but the Alleged Russian SolarWinds Hack

As authorities probe a suspected Russia-led hack of government networks, President Donald Trump has been publicly silent on the matter.

Even as a slew of federal agencies acknowledged their computer systems appeared to have been affected by malware spread via Texas-based software company SolarWinds, Trump continued to tweet about a presidential election he had already lost.

With roughly a month left of his first and presumably only term in the White House, Trump claimed on Thursday, without evidence, that the outcome of the November vote was “rigged,” and suggested that the Democratic Party had somehow stolen the election.

The same day, a warning emerged from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), saying that the SolarWinds hack posed a “grave risk” to all levels of the U.S. government, alongside critical infrastructure entities and businesses.

CISA, which operates under Homeland Security, said evidence suggested agencies had been compromised by an advanced persistent threat (APT) actor—another term given to a nation state-level cybersecurity adversary—since at least March 2020.

Trump remained silent as multiple administration officials alluded to the evidence that pointed in the direction of Russia. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo noted there had been a “consistent effort of the Russians to try and get into American servers.”

Trump remained publicly silent as the Department of Energy, which includes a division overseeing the nuclear weapons stockpile, confirmed it found malware linked to the hackers on its business networks as part of a probe happening in real-time.

And Trump did not respond publicly as his former homeland security adviser Thomas P. Bossert said the “magnitude of this ongoing attack is hard to overstate” and noted that Trump was “on the verge of leaving behind a federal government, and perhaps a large number of major industries, compromised by the Russian government.”

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Hackers disguise malware attack as new details on Donald Trump’s COVID-19 illness

The confirmation that US President Donald Trump has been infected by the Coronavirus, and had to spend time this weekend in hospital, has – understandably – made headlines around the world. And there are plenty of people, on both sides of the political divide, who are interested in learning more about his health status. It’s no surprise, therefore, to discover that cybercriminals are exploiting that interest with the intention of infecting users’ computers. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Graham Cluley

“Yourefired” was Donald Trump’s Twitter password, claim hackers

According to Dutch magazine, three ethical hackers were able to determine Donald Trump’s Twitter password while he was running his US Presidential campaign. A password that had been exposed years before following the notorious LinkedIn hack.
Graham Cluley

Mass hijacking spree takes over subreddits to promote Donald Trump

Mass hijacking spree takes over subreddits to promote Donald Trump

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Dozens of discussion groups on Reddit—including those dedicated to the National Football League, the San Francisco 49ers, and the Gorillaz—were hit in a Friday morning mass takeover spree that used the subreddits to spread messages promoting President Trump.

The hijacked accounts had tens of millions of combined members. The 148,000-member subreddit Supernatural, dedicated to the TV show by the same name, was emblazoned with pro-Trump images and slogans. Reddit personnel have since restored the moderator account to its rightful owner. The image above is how the subreddit appeared when the takeover was still active. The takeovers came five weeks after Reddit banned /r/The_Donald, a leading forum for fans of the president, and hundreds of other unrelated subreddits for violating recently rewritten content rules.

Reddit personnel published this post captioned, “Ongoing incident with compromised mod accounts.” Reddit personnel then warned that moderator accounts were being compromised and used to vandalize subreddits. It asked moderators of affected subreddits to report them in responses. At the time this post when live, the list of reported subreddits included:

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