The National Security Council (NSC) staff released an update regarding its investigative and mitigation efforts of the recent cybersecurity incident involving federal government and private companies. The NSC stood up a task force known as the Cyber Unified Coordination Group (UCG), composed of the FBI, CISA, and ODNI with support from NSA to coordinate the investigation and remediation of this cyber incident.
Their investigation indicates that an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actor, likely Russian in origin, is responsible for most or all of the recently discovered, ongoing cyber compromises of both government and non-governmental networks. "At this time, we believe this was, and continues to be, an intelligence gathering effort. We are taking all necessary steps to understand the full scope of this campaign and respond accordingly," says the statement.