{"id":7137,"date":"2015-08-06T16:14:19","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T21:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=7137"},"modified":"2015-08-06T16:14:19","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T21:14:19","slug":"russians-hacked-joint-chiefs-of-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/06\/russians-hacked-joint-chiefs-of-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"\ufeffRussians Hacked Joint Chiefs of Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<header class=\"content-header\">\n<figure class=\"hero-media\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img hero\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.thedailybeast.com\/content\/dailybeast\/cheats\/2015\/08\/06\/russians-hacked-joint-chiefs-of-staff\/jcr:content\/image.crop.800.500.jpg\/47963176.cached.jpg\" alt=\"The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S.Army General Martin Dempsey, appears before the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington July 29, 2015. Secretary of State John Kerry intensified efforts on Tuesday to beat back criticism of the Iran nuclear deal and convince U.S. lawmakers that rejecting it would give Tehran a fast track to a weapon and access to billions of dollars from collapsed sanctions. REUTERS\/Gary Cameron\" \/><figcaption class=\"image\">\n<p class=\"credits\">\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"content-body cheat-body-content\">Investigators say they believe the same Russian hackers that carried out attacks on the White House and State Department last year and the attempted penetration of the Pentagon last month were responsible for a major cyberattack that shut down the Joint Chiefs of Staff email for the past 11 days, The Daily Beast has learned.In all of the attacks, hackers broke into unclassified email networks by sending legitimate-looking emails than turned out to be malware or \u201cspear phishing\u201d attempts. In April, President Obama\u2019s unclassified emails were among those <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/04\/26\/us\/russian-hackers-read-obamas-unclassified-emails-officials-say.html?_r=0\">compromised<\/a>, along with the State Department.<\/p>\n<p>Ten days before the July 27 hacking of the Joint Staff system, the Pentagon sent an email warning \u201cat least five\u201d DOD computer users had been targeted, which was first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2015\/07\/18\/russian-hackers-target-the-pentagon.html\">reported<\/a> by The Daily Beast. The notice linked those attacks to penetrations of unclassified networks at the White House and State Department that began last year. The Joint Chiefs then suffered what one defense official called the \u201cmost sophisticated\u201d attack on its unclassified network, one that has shut down communications ever since for the 4,000 employees on the Joint Staff unclassified server.<\/p>\n<p><i>Read the Remainder at<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/cheats\/2015\/08\/05\/joint-chiefs-of-staff-hacked.html\">The Daily Beast<\/a><\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Investigators say they believe the same Russian hackers that carried out attacks on the White House and State Department last year and the attempted penetration of the Pentagon last month were responsible for a major cyberattack that shut down the Joint Chiefs of Staff email for the past 11 days, The Daily Beast has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[13,74,1317,883,1814,65],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}