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Although the Cyber Security Agency and the FBI did not administration's knowledge of the breakthrough for weeks
explicitly announce who was responsible for this breach, or its recent discovery of that, but it is certain that it has
but private security companies, current and former known it for weeks and yet it chose silence, which is what
American officials and media outlets pointed the finger at prompted its opponents to accuse it of complicity and
Russia, and this is what the New York Times stated,
incompetence and break another value from the foundations
saying that the infiltrators are "most likely" Working for of the US political system based on Transparency.
Russia "and she also pointed to the possibility of" SVR
"involvement. One of the leading Russian intelligence On the other hand, the US President-elect, Joe Biden,
agencies in the cyber-attack on the company. The Russian
pledged that he would give cybersecurity a "top priority" in
embassy in America, as usual, denied responsibility for his administration. "We need to stop and deter our
this attack and said that it "does not carry out attacks in the adversaries from launching major cyber-attacks in the first
electronic field." place," he added in a comment on the incident, adding, "We
will do this, among other things, by imposing heavy
It is worth noting that the administration of former penalties on those responsible for such malicious attacks,
President Trump did not inform the American people until by coordination with our allies and partners. " In fact, the
recently about this attack, and President Donald Trump most prominent indications of this attack were in two
did not comment explicitly and clearly yet on the cyber-
aspects, the first is the capabilities of America's opponents
attacks and hesitated a lot to point the finger of accusation to penetrate and piracy, which raises an alert on the
at Russia. Moreover, Trump said on his Twitter account, requirement of redoubling efforts and doubling the budget
"I had a summary of what happened and things became for means of protection, as President-elect Joe Biden
under control ”. Adding in his first tweet in this regard,"
mentioned, not just the budget for innovation and
Russia, Russia, Russia, the prime suspect when any invention. As for the second aspect, it is represented in this
problem occurs, "noting without any evidence that China" weakness, impartiality and indifference with which Trump
may "also be involved in the matter,. dealt with this attack as if it took place in another country,
especially as he had the slogan of America first, and his
however, China has denied any relationship about this neutrality towards the issue raised doubts and raised many
regard. President Trump's comments came in contradiction question marks.In addition to that, Russia's accusation of
to the accusations made by Secretary of State Pompeo to carrying out this electronic hack on American computers
Russia that it was behind the attack that took place last represented a dangerous turning point in the forms of
March. Which raised doubts about President Trump's conflict between the two superpowers, and opened the door
to a new pattern of international conflict, based on
electronic warfare and acts of piracy that may cause more
damage than conventional wars.

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