The analysis comes as the list of US agencies, private companies and other entities affected by the hacking campaign continues to increase. On Wednesday night, the US government's top security agencies formally acknowledged in a joint statement that the ongoing cyber campaign was still active. "If this is the case, it means the Russians had the ability to navigate all networks and control select US homeland security networks during this time." Security experts have also raised concerns about the Trump administration's elimination of the cyber coordinator position on the National Security Council. "Even if everything was highly effective in the government's cyber security, it's quite likely this breach wouldn't have been caught," said Vijay A.

Source: CNN December 18, 2020 01:17 UTC