Moonlight Maze

Moonlight Maze is the name of an FBI inquiry into a cyber attack on United States government networks that began in 1998.[1][2][3][4]

On September 20, 1999, Newsweek printed a story on Moonlight Maze that was written by Gregory Vistica. It was titled "'We're in the middle of a cyberwar'," based on a quote from then-Deputy Secretary of Defense John Hamre.[5] Bodmer, Kilger, Carpenter and Jones cite that the duration of the attack was well over two years and the adversary was likely able to collect a vast amount of critical information which was previously safeguarded and characterized the attack as an Advanced Persistent Threat.[6] They explained that the ability to retain access, probe these systems and collect sensitive data demonstrated a level of expertise rarely seen at that time.[6]

Federal Computer Week's Dan Verton described the Hamre quote earlier that year [7] as pertaining to "Serbia's attacks against NATO's public World Wide Web pages".

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References

  1. Drogin, Bob (7 October 1999). "Russians Seem To Be Hacking Into Pentagon". Retrieved 22 August 2015.
  2. "Moonlight Maze, 1998–1999". RealClearPolitics.com. RealClearPolitics. 26 February 2013. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
  3. PBS. "Cyberwar! The Warnings?". PBS. Retrieved 26 July 2010.
  4. Rid, Thomas (2016). Rise of the machines : a cybernetic history. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-28600-7.
  5. "Newsweek Exclusive: 'We're in the Middle of a Cyberwar'". PR Newswire. September 12, 1999. Retrieved February 12, 2013.
  6. 1 2 Sean Bodmer; Dr. Max Kilger; Gregory Carpenter; Jade Jones (2012). Reverse Deception: Organized Cyber Threat Counter-Exploitation. McGraw-Hill Osborne Media. ISBN 978-0071772495.
  7. Brewin, Bob (June 20, 1999). "Cyberattacks spur talk of 3rd DOD network". Retrieved 20 September 2016.
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