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CNN Claims Multiple US Regime Agencies hit by Cyber Sabotage

from thefreeonline on 15 Jun, 2023 18:12 by Home World News

The incident comes a day after Russian hackers threatened European banks

“Several” US government agencies have been targeted in an ongoing global hacking spree, CNN reported on Thursday.

While Wasington is not commenting on who is to blame, Russian-speaking groups have taken responsibility for similar intrusions in recent weeks.

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency “is providing support to several federal agencies that have experienced intrusions,” an agency official told the American broadcaster. “We are working urgently to understand impacts and ensure timely remediation.”

It is unclear who carried out the attack, and how many agencies were affected.

The attack is the latest in a slew of hacks targeting Western corporations, universities, and governments in the last two weeks.

State governments in Minnesota and Illinois have been hit, as have the BBC, British Airways, and oil giant Shell.

A Russian-speaking group known as Cl0p has taken responsibility for most of the breaches, promising to start publishing data obtained from the affected targets if its ransom demands are not met.

According to CNN, the group exploited a vulnerability in a popular file-transfer program called MOVEit to gain access to its targets.

Clop: Russian-speaking cyber gang claims credit for hack of BBC and British Airways employee data | CNN Business

In a video released on Wednesday, the Russian-speaking hacktivist groups Killnet and REvil, as well as another group calling itself Anonymous Sudan, said that they would launch a campaign targeting European banks and financial institutions “without mercy.”

These organizations have allegedly targeted US and other Western governments in the past, although it is unclear whether they took part in any recent attacks..

Lavrov’s warning on US F-16 Nuclear bombers for Kiev labelled ‘just Fearmongering’as Holocaust looms

from thefreeonline on 15th June 2023 by Drago Bosnic, at SouthFront

Power Mad Maniacs now controlling the USA are guilty of the worst crime in History, by a long shot.. Provoking the Nuclear Holocaust.. Guilty and proud of it.. of conspiracy for profit.. to cause Genocide, Ecocide, Omnicide . . killing you and me, our friends and families.. burned alive , or in a radioactive abbatoir, or just starved to a lingering horror worse than death…

‘At every step of the escalation the US has pretended reluctance while ramping up tens of billions of arms gifts to its proxy Ukraine regime. Now they say the F16s are ‘not really nuclear bombers’, but they can be easily adapted to carry the dirty nuclear bombs Russia realistically claims Ukraine now possesses and plans to use in a desperate new false flag slaughter, just as the British Storm Shadow missiles were easily adapted to Ukrainian jets from Day 1.

Here we are seconds from The Holocaust, when US Nuclear jets “reluctantly” attack Russian forces in areas that are PART OF RUSSIA in Russian law and confirmed by overwhelming votes by their besieged ethnic Russian population, forcing Russia to legally and morally, in their terms , react with Nuclear Weapons. As Putin himself remarked..”without Russia we don’t need a planet”.

Are Lavrov’s Concerns About Nuclear-Capable F-16s For Kiev Really ‘Baseless Fearmongering’?

Written by Drago Bosnic, independent geopolitical and military analyst.

Back in late May, the United States government “finally gave in to pressure” and decided to greenlight the delivery of F-16s to the Kiev regime.

As a result, NATO’s European members were given the legal basis to deliver these old fighter jets to the Neo-Nazi junta. The troubled Biden administration has been mulling the move for months, while Ukrainian pilots have been conducting training in several NATO countries, including the US itself. Last week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov issued a stark warning to the political West regarding the delivery of nuclear-capable US-made F-16 fighter jets to the Kiev regime.

Welcome to World War ThreeWe are teetering on a Mutually Assured Destruction precipice at this very moment. Kurt Nimmo

“We can expect anything from the leaders of the United States and other Western countries whom Washington has brought to its heel. They are proving the truth of this statement now that following the supplies of modern long-range artillery and tanks, they are getting ready, in earnest, to supply the F-16 jets. Some say they will make two squadrons available, others say eight. They are gearing up to continue the escalation of the war against us,” Lavrov stated and then added a stark warning: “We must keep in mind that one version of the F-16 can carry nuclear weapons.

“M242 gun mounted on Bradley Fighting Vehicles now being destroyed in the Ukrainian Offensive fires the Depleted Uranium rounds”.

The Russian Foreign Minister made these comments mere days after troops from NATO took part in incursions into Russia proper, accompanied by escalating drone strikes against targets as far as Moscow itself. However, the mainstream propaganda machine was quick to decry Lavrov’s warnings as supposed “disinformation” and “baseless fearmongering”. The Business Insider claims, citing Hans Kristensen, the director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, that “Lavrov’s comments were misinformation, perhaps even disinformation”.

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“It’s misinformation because he’s saying things that are not real and using it in a way to, I assume, create public concern or fearmongering about Western intentions,” Kristensen told the Business Insider, adding that “Lavrov is using the nominal capability of the F-16 aircraft to say that the ones that might be sent to Ukraine could also be converted to nuclear, but that’s not the case. The F-16s that Ukraine is going to get — if and when it gets them — they’re not from the units that have the nuclear mission. There’s no way at all that any nuclear state in the West would give nuclear weapons, or nuclear weapons capability, to Ukraine. It’s completely out of the question.”

The F-16 is designed to be capable of launching nuclear strikes, usually with B61 thermonuclear bombs. The units deployed by NATO members such as Belgium and the Netherlands operate F-16 fighter jets capable of delivering nuclear weapons, specifically as part of their nuclear sharing agreements with the US.

And it’s precisely these countries (in addition to Denmark and others) that still operate F-16s and could very well be the first to send them to the Kiev regime. On the other hand, members such as Poland and Romania are extremely unlikely to do so, as the move would undermine their own security. This further reinforces the idea that the jets destined for the Neo-Nazi junta will be capable of delivering nuclear weapons.

Russia Warns Depleted Uranium Will Be Considered a Nuclear Weapon + Impacts on Children in Iraq https://t.co/xllsLxl24a #StopUkraineWar #NATOout #DepletedUranium #Putin #Biden #Donbass #BradleyVehicles pic.twitter.com/eZu6PVqgRO
— Mike Gilliland (@MikeGilliland11) February 14, 2023

This alone makes Lavrov’s concerns all the more factual, rather than “disinformation” and “baseless fearmongering”. Russia has repeatedly warned that the Kiev regime could attempt to acquire nuclear weapons, or at the very least a so-called “dirty bomb”. Such plans were publicly announced by the Neo-Nazi junta’s top officials themselves, including its frontman Volodymyr Zelensky, which is another proof that Moscow’s warnings are not to be dismissed.

Sergey Karaganov: By using its nuclear weapons, Russia could save humanity from a global catastrophe

In addition, Russian intelligence services have found crucial evidence pointing out that the US has been conducting experiments and deploying “sensitive nuclear technologies” in former Ukrainian nuclear power plants (NPPs), such as the Zaporozhye NPP, possibly to even attempt a nuclear false flag operation.

Although the US is by far the largest operator of F-16 fighter jets, it still hasn’t announced plans to deliver them to the Neo-Nazi junta forces. Washington DC’s propaganda machine insists that this is supposedly because “the US is reluctant to do so to avoid escalation with Moscow”.

Is US about to conduct nuclear false flag in Ukraine and blame Russia for it?

However, this is a moot point, as the belligerent thalassocracy has so far done everything in its power to antagonize Russia through a series of moves that have pushed the world dangerously close to a world-ending thermonuclear conflict. Still, this doesn’t seem to stop the US from going ahead with such plans, at the very least covertly. National Security Council coordinator John Kirby recently admitted this, stating that “the US has been forward-looking about future capabilities and needs”.