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United States Federal Agencies Hacked Using Remote Tools

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The U.S. government's cybersecurity agency has warned that a group of criminally motivated hackers has compromised federal agencies with authentic remote desktop programs.

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CISA said in a joint advisory with the National Security Agency on Wednesday that it had identified a “widespread cyber campaign involving the malicious use of legitimate remote monitoring and management (RMM) software”

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It had targeted multiple federal civilian executive branch agencies — known as FCEBs — a list that includes Homeland Security, the Treasury and the Justice Department.

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CISA stated that it first discovered suspicious, malicious activities within two FCEB systems in October while performing a retrospective analysis with Einstein, an intrusion detection system to protect Federal civilian agencies' networks.

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Further analysis realized that other networks of government were affected.

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CISA identified this as a phishing scheme that was financially motivated and was first discovered by security company Silent Push.

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