The United States, already dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, is also being targeted for cyber attacks and foreign disinformation campaigns, as federal officials feared. 'We are seeing multiple disinformation campaigns right now,' one official said.
Multiple sources confirmed to ABC News in recent days that both the efforts that slowed computer systems at the Health and Human Services Department Sunday night and the weekend rash of bogus text messages warning a national quarantine is imminent were the products of foreign actors or components of foreign governments or entities connected to them."We are seeing multiple disinformation campaigns right now," said one federal official briefed on the situation.
Tune into ABC at 1 p.m. ET and ABC News Live at 4 p.m. ET every weekday for special coverage of the novel coronavirus with the full ABC News team, including the latest news, context and analysis. "When you're dealing with something like a denial of service attack on HHS during a pandemic, that's a very grave action for another country to take," Attorney General William Barr told The Associated Press Tuesday, confirming that an investigation is ongoing."So, if it is another country doing this, I'm sure the ramifications will be severe."
In this Feb. 10, 2020, file photo Attorney General William Barr speaks at the National Sheriffs' Association Winter Legislative and Technology Conference in Washington.More insidious was the attack that began late last week in the New York City area and then broadened to Washington, D.C.
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