President Trump has hurled the dire charge of "Treason" at the New York Times for its lengthy investigative piece alleging US intelligence has stepped up systematic cyber attacks on Russia's power grid.
"This is a virtual act of Treason by a once great paper so desperate for a story, any story, even if bad for our Country" Trump tweeted Saturday evening in response to the story which ran hours earlier.
Whether this means the president is outraged that a true and verified report could be detrimental to US credibility and national security, or that fake news could hurt the US and invite unnecessary cyber retaliation is still not fully evident, but Trump's impulsive Saturday evening tweets appear to back the former.
The NYT report outlines an alleged ongoing US operation to infiltrate and implant malware in Russia's power grid as preparation for any potential major cyber warfare operation in the future, and further as "a warning" to the Kremlin.
According to the Times, "Officials described the previously unreported deployment of American computer code inside Russia's grid and other targets." The officials described that "It has gotten far, far more aggressive over the past year," and that they are "Doing things at a scale that we never contemplated a few years ago." Though US operations hadn't reached the level of specific attacks, the malware constitutes what's described as a "Persistent presence" within Russia's infrastructure.
The report casts the latest ramped up cyber efforts targeting Russia as part of a broader campaign to clandestinely probe the country's electrical grid going back to 2012 - efforts which grew following alleged Russian hacking and election meddling connected with the 2016 election.
Crucially, as CNN describes of the NYT report, "Two administration officials told the Times they believed President Donald Trump had not been briefed in any detail about the US computer code being implanted inside the Russian grid."
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-16/trump-excoriates-nyt-story-claiming-us-cyber-operation-against-russia-hidden-him
"This is a virtual act of Treason by a once great paper so desperate for a story, any story, even if bad for our Country" Trump tweeted Saturday evening in response to the story which ran hours earlier.
Whether this means the president is outraged that a true and verified report could be detrimental to US credibility and national security, or that fake news could hurt the US and invite unnecessary cyber retaliation is still not fully evident, but Trump's impulsive Saturday evening tweets appear to back the former.
The NYT report outlines an alleged ongoing US operation to infiltrate and implant malware in Russia's power grid as preparation for any potential major cyber warfare operation in the future, and further as "a warning" to the Kremlin.
According to the Times, "Officials described the previously unreported deployment of American computer code inside Russia's grid and other targets." The officials described that "It has gotten far, far more aggressive over the past year," and that they are "Doing things at a scale that we never contemplated a few years ago." Though US operations hadn't reached the level of specific attacks, the malware constitutes what's described as a "Persistent presence" within Russia's infrastructure.
The report casts the latest ramped up cyber efforts targeting Russia as part of a broader campaign to clandestinely probe the country's electrical grid going back to 2012 - efforts which grew following alleged Russian hacking and election meddling connected with the 2016 election.
Crucially, as CNN describes of the NYT report, "Two administration officials told the Times they believed President Donald Trump had not been briefed in any detail about the US computer code being implanted inside the Russian grid."
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-16/trump-excoriates-nyt-story-claiming-us-cyber-operation-against-russia-hidden-him
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