Hackers target unclassified White House network

The hackers are said to be working for the Russian government,
according to a news report
by Ifechukwu Alex
Hackers targeted an unclassified White House network but did not
damage any systems, a White House official said Tuesday.
In the course of assessing recent threats, "activity of concern" was
found on the unclassified Executive Office of the President network,
the official said under condition of anonymity. "Any such activity is
something we take very seriously. In this case, we took immediate
measures to evaluate and mitigate the activity."
The intrusion, however, led to temporary outages and loss of
connectivity for users while cybersecurity teams moved to counter
the attack. The disruptions were entirely the result of the measures
taken to defend the networks, the official said.
"Our computers and systems have not been damaged, though
some elements of the unclassified network have been affected," the
official wrote in an email.
The hackers are thought to be working for the Russian
government , and the U.S. was alerted about the breach by an ally,
the Washington Post said, citing unnamed sources. There is no
evidence to date that the classified network was also breached,
according to the report.
Security firm FireEye said in a report that Russia could be behind a
computer spying campaign, directed at targets of interests to
Russia such as European governments, militaries and security
organizations. The attacks by the group FireEye dubbed as APT28
leave less clues than other state-backed attacks, it said.