Monday, July 19, 2021

U.S., NATO, EU, And Australia Blame China For Cyber-Attack On Microsoft Exchange Servers And Ransomware Attacks

 

Daily Mail: Biden administration confirms China was behind hack of 30,000 Microsoft Exchange Servers in April and condemns Beijing for hiring 'criminal contract hackers' to carry out US ransomware attacks 

* Biden administration led world-wide condemnation of China for cyber hacking 

* White House accused Beijing of a 'pattern of malicious cyber activities' 

* Said it poses 'major threat' to U.S. economic and national security Charged Chinese state actors with April hack of Microsoft Exchange Servers 

* UK, EU, Japan, NATO and others signed on to condemnation 

* No punitive damages for Beijing as US raising awareness of Chinese actions 

The Biden administration on Monday led a worldwide condemnation of China for state-sponsored ransomware attacks, accusing Beijing of a 'pattern of malicious cyber activities' that poses a 'major threat to U.S. and allies' economic and national security.' 

The administration also announced it has determined that China was behind the April hack of the Microsoft Exchange Servers, which affected thousands of users and American businesses. 

The cyber criminals hit more than 30,000 servers in the US alone and hundreds of thousands worldwide. 

And China is doing it for its own financial gain, the White House charged.  

Read more ....  

WNU Editor: This is long overdue. 

More News On The U.S., NATO, EU, And Australia Blaming China For The Recent Cyber-attack On Microsoft Exchange Servers And Ransomware Attacks  

Microsoft Exchange hack caused by China, US and allies say -- AP  

US and allies accuse China of global hacking spree -- Reuters 

US and allies condemn China for 'malicious' cyber activity -- AFP  

China accused of cyber-attack on Microsoft Exchange servers -- BBC  

UK and allies accuse Chinese state-backed group of Microsoft hack -- The Guardian  

U.S., NATO and EU to blame China for cyberattack on Microsoft Exchange servers -- CNBC  

Europe joins US to condemn cyberattacks from China -- Politico  

Australia accuses China of launching 'malicious' cyber attacks - as government joins allies in accusing Communist state of hiring 'contract hackers' -- Daily Mail

US Accuses Chinese Intelligence Agents Of Masterminding Hacks On Microsoft And Others Worldwide -- Zero Hedge

25 comments:

Anonymous said...

But Russia!

Intoned the CNN anchor

But Russia!

alleged the Democrat pol

But Russia!

Blubbered the Democrat voter

Anonymous said...

First US Capitol rioter convicted of a felony gets 8 months in prison

Anonymous said...

"He spent about 15 minutes inside, wearing a Donald Trump shirt and carrying a Trump flag."

'That conviction for standing around for 15 minutes must make up for a misspent life of being given a PhD due to White Privilege and not being able to pen a novel.


Compare contrast Paul Hodgkins and Joe Biden

Biden trespassed on the Capitol and bragged about on Letterman. No prosecution.

Anonymous said...

Emails Confirm Hunter Biden Wrote Facebook’s Adam Connor and Had Him Remove Account that Attacked Him

Special laws for Bidens

Anonymous said...

Donald Trump's top 2016 aide previously denied the campaign paid actors to appear at the future president's big campaign launch announcement at Trump Tower, yet that same official recently told Insider people were indeed hired to show up.

Trump kicked off his candidacy at his New York City skyscraper in a speech on June 16, 2015, appearing before a large crowd of what seemed to be his supporters. The event immediately prompted speculation about how Trump managed to draw in a sizable group of people.

"I remember thinking, 'Man, I'm surprised he couldn't even get people there. That seems insane,'" Sarah Isgur, the deputy campaign manager for 2016 presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, told Insider as part of an oral history project chronicling one of the most unorthodox GOP primaries the country has ever seen.

Read more: The definitive oral history of how Trump took over the GOP, as told to us by Cruz, Rubio, and 20 more insiders

At the time, The Hollywood Reporter published a report that said the Trump campaign offered actors $50 to attend the launch.

"It seemed strange," Amanda Carpenter, then-communications director for 2016 candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, told Insider. "I was watching the coverage of 'Oh, did they pay people to show up? Who were these people?'"

Anonymous said...

It was only a matter of time until Donald Trump converted the debate over covid-19 vaccines into an occasion for his supporters to show their loyalty to him — and even worse, to the “big lie” that his 2020 loss was illegitimate.

“People are refusing to take the Vaccine because they don’t trust his Administration,” the former president said in a statement Sunday, referring to President Biden. “They don’t trust the Election results, and they certainly don’t trust the Fake News.”

There you have it: Trump is telling his supporters that they are correct not to trust the federal government on vaccines, because this sentiment should flow naturally from their suspicion that the election was stolen from him. Expressing the former has been magically transformed into a way to show fealty to the latter.

This suggests the anti-vaccine mania on the right may only get worse, at exactly the moment that we need it to get better. This vile new Trump claim hints at how this is likely to happen, with the complicity of even relatively responsible Republicans.

It’s bad enough that Trump has now recast the question of whether to trust the federal government on vaccines as a proxy for whether the election was stolen from him. What makes this worse is that other Republicans are playing a version of this game.

Consider Sen. Bill Cassidy’s appearance on “Fox News Sunday.” Asked about his state’s woeful vaccination rate, the Louisiana Republican declared that Americans “don’t trust government” on vaccines because of the “partisan comments coming out of the White House regarding the next Jim Crow laws.”

“He’s depicting himself as an uber partisan,” Cassidy continued of Biden, as if this is supposed to explain red-state distrust of the administration on vaccines.

This has attracted plenty of ridicule, but the truly pernicious nature of it has gone under-appreciated.

Anonymous said...

“We won’t back down,” Greene said at the protest outside City Hall in Riverside, where the second attempt to hold the rally was canceled. “The radical left wants to threaten you, they want to harass you, they want to target you, and they want to cancel you.”

“You’ve got two members of Congress right here, and we refuse to be canceled because we won’t let you be canceled,” Greene said.

A venue in Laguna Hills canceled Greene and Gaetz’s event after finding out who the speakers were, according to the Press-Enterprise. The second venue, the Riverside Convention Center, canceled the event because of concerns from city officials.

The pair then booked at the M3 Anaheim Live Event Center, but ultimately that, too, was canceled; a city spokesperson told the Press-Enterprise that the cancellation was the result of a lack of adequate notice, as well as the content of Greene and Gaetz’s rally.

“We respect free speech and we are capable of holding events,” Anaheim spokesperson Mike Lyster told the Press-Enterprise. “But it was the lack of advance notice for an event that would attract the attention at the level this one would that has raised issues for our city.”

“Also, we have concerns about the nature of the event and that [it] does not reflect the city of Anaheim and the values we share,” Lyster told the Press-Enterprise.

The America First rallies hosted by Greene and Gaetz—who is currently the subject of an alleged federal investigation into sex trafficking—launched in May, and have largely been a rehash of the same baseless “Big Lie” allegations that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from former President Donald Trump, with some anti-vax disinformation sprinkled on top.

“Don’t let them force your kids to wear masks at school. Don’t let your kids be forced to take a vaccine that’s not FDA-approved,” Greene said Saturday—wrongly: the FDA has granted emergency use authorization for Pfizer’s vaccine for those 12 and older and Moderna and Johnson & Johnson’s vaccines for those over the age of 18. After a long period of flat case numbers, COVID-19 infections in Orange County have risen 142 percent in the past two weeks, according to the New York Times. More than half of the county’s residents are vaccinated.

Gaetz and Greene were predictably apoplectic about the cancellations. After the city of Riverside released a statement Saturday praising the convention center for cancelling the event, and one city official described Gaetz and Greene as “the antithesis of everything Riverside stands for,” Gaetz threatened a lawsuit.

Anonymous said...



A high-ranking Trump Organization executive has testified before a special grand jury that returned an indictment against the former president's company.

Jeff McConney, a longtime accountant for the family-owned business, previously testified during a 2017 civil lawsuit and showed a willingness to admit errors that might help prosecutors build case, according to a transcript from a confidential interview obtained by The Daily Beast through a public records request.

"I probably didn't know at that time that we probably shouldn't be using foundation funds for this type of thing," McConney told a New York attorney general investigator at the tie. "We made a mistake."

That error was related to Donald Trump using a donor-funded charity to settle a lawsuit with Palm Beach, Florida, where his Mar-A-Lago resort is located, and McConney also admitted mistakes related to the then-president's $25,000 gift to Florida attorney general Pam Bondi's re-election campaign after she dropped an investigation into his fraudulent Trump University.

"We found out we made the contribution to… a political organization as opposed to a charitable organization," McConney said. "Anything and everything that could go wrong, did go wrong, with this one request."

McConney also told investigator about the time Trump skipped a Republican debate in January 2016 to host a televised fundraiser for veterans in Iowa, but he later got caught holding back donations.

"At that time, we thought there was a possibility of handing out checks to veterans," McConney said under oath. "I had a checkbook and a pen, piece of paper to write down the contributions, if that was Mr. Trump's desire."

McConney gave detailed descriptions of his role in the Trump Organization, saying that Trump only signs the most important checks flowing out of the company, and the twice-impeached one-term president is confident his longtime lieutenant will remain loyal as he's questioned by investigators.

"The former president thinks that Jeff worships the ground that he walks on," said a source who's spoken to Trump about McConney in the past few weeks. "Trump has said that after all he's done for Jeff and his family, there is no reason for [McConney] to turn on him, like some other people have."

Anonymous said...

And the English PhD with no novel under his belt was triggered. We can see it from one of his signature magazine/newspaper spam attacks.

1:35
1:37
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Anonymous said...

NOTE TO LOW IQ
YOU DO NOT GET A PhD. in Lit as "a writer of novels." If you do not know even this you should shut your know-nothing mouth up and stop showing readers how stupid you are.
Try creative writing professors. Then see how many of them have jobs because they published creative writing.
further note: my dissertation has been published.

Unknown said...

Fight

Anonymous said...

Fight Club author had a BS in journalism plus life experience.

Sword of Shannara author had a law degree.

Call of the Wild author had no degree.

PhD in Lit has a cartoon novel.

How is you "Unknown" sock puppet working out for you. Are you proud of your sock puppet bro?






Anonymous said...

your sister sure loves it
by now enough readers, those on the right, the middle, the left, know you are of low self-esteem and a momma's boy who needs to belittle others to bolster flagging ego and flacid dick

Anonymous said...

For the record, mine was the first post. The reason for the post was because I see China as the greatest threat, but for domestic political purposes, a loser candidate Hillary, and the Democrat candidate decided it was better for them to blow Russia out of proportion and out right lie.

So "But Russia" will never ever go away. Consider it the Bloody Flag of the 2100s.

Anonymous said...

Where is your dissertation on line. I want to have a good laugh.

Anonymous said...

Former President Donald Trump ripped Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for upholding the filibuster during his presidency, according to an interview in an upcoming book published by Vanity Fair on Monday.

"He's a stupid person," Trump said of the Kentucky Republican, per the book. "I don't think he's smart enough."

"I tried to convince Mitch McConnell to get rid of the filibuster, to terminate it, so that we would get everything, and he was a knucklehead and he didn't do it," Trump added.

The fight harks back to 2017, when Trump took office and Republicans controlled both chambers of Congress, with a 52-seat majority in the Senate. Trump wanted to push through his priorities and urged for the filibuster to be eliminated. The rule is typically used by the minority party to delay or block bills from the majority.

McConnell killed the filibuster in April 2017 to advance Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, after Democrats expressed their opposition to his confirmation, invoking what is known as the "nuclear option," which ends debate via a simple majority.

But whenever Trump's policy proposals, such as funding for a southern border "wall," stalled in Congress, the president would call on McConnell to go "nuclear." McConnell refused. Trump gave up when Democrats eventually won the House in the 2018 midterm elections, ending the GOP's legislative majority.

Anonymous said...

And more Shift-C/Shift-V spam at 2:59 by a person, who should be good at writing and organizing his thoughts.

Anonymous said...

Bloody Flag. Expect it being thrown in your face for past crimes for the next 35 years (generation).

anon said...

Did the demented turd even read the articles posted?
It was about Chinese cyber attack. It had nothing to do with Trump.
He's crazy.
Severe case of TDS.

Anonymous said...

I'm sorry anon, but my 1st post was a cathartic release, the truth and an ongoing worry. I have said before that Russia is an adversary, but that China is our most dangerous adversary. I also said that Russia gate was about the democrats quest for power. So I posted what I posted.

I hope he lives at least another 7 years, so he may reap the whirlwind. I hopefully won't be here to be subjected to it.

Anonymous said...

China Joe Says He Won’t Sanction China For Its Recent Widespread Hack of Microsoft Exchange Server (VIDEO)

Democrats always frothing at the mouth at the mere mention of Russia. Democrats act like little school boys around China.

Democrats the bought and paid for party.

Anonymous said...

Dems won; trumpers lost
the people have spoken

Anonymous said...

you mean the DNC and their copious fake ballots spoke

Anonymous said...

"A reporter asked Joe Biden why his administration isn’t putting sanctions on China after a widespread hack of Microsoft Exchange Server by Chinese state-backed hackers.

The Biden Admin “shamed” China for the cyber sabotage, but China Joe refuses to take action.

A second reporter followed up and asked Biden what the difference is between what China has done and Russia has done in terms of cyber attacks."



Biden: “That would take a longer explanation.”

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Reporter: “We have all the time in the world!”

***

Biden: “No we don’t…”

Biden: “My understanding is that the Chinese government – not unlike the Russian government is not doing this themselves, but are protecting those who are doing it,”


"Joe Biden could have saved a lot of time and just said he can’t sanction China because his son Hunter’s investment firm inked a $1 billion investment deal with the Bank of China."

Anonymous said...

It's not working!