• barrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    20 hours ago

    Computers in offices used by the NNSA were compromised. Those computers themselves are not tied into any of the controls involving nuclear weapons, but are used in offices, some of which may have been on bases with launch sites. There may have been some intelligence that could be gained from these computers that may describe some things like operations at nuclear facilities, or supply chains. All of the computers involved are almost certainly being wiped, so there will be no ongoing backdoors.

    It must also be noted that there’s a decent chance that this was just hackers unaffiliated with the Chinese government doing a ransomware attack on whatever they could find using the microsoft sharepoint vulnerability, and that this just happened to hit this department.

    • cayde6ml@lemmygrad.mlOP
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      19 hours ago

      Ah. That fucking sucks, but it’s not nothing, at least.

      Part of me was/is hoping, that given how lax security, intelligence, and expertise at anything anglo and Amerikkkan related, that there still might be backdoors that the crackkkers couldn’t find or wipe yet, but I wouldn’t hold my breath, and you sound way more knowledgeable than me on stuff like this.

      I always appreciate those that remain grounded and comparatively calm about potentially exciting news, rather than getting extremely excited, like me.