Trump is having sex with Putin, and they bumped into the Internet master switch accidentally ;-)
"US HIT BY MAJOR CYBER ATTACK GOING BACK MAYBE SIX MONTHS, TRUMP WAS RIGHT TO FIRE CISA HEAD" ... probably fired him for multiple reasons, see Dominion Systems ;-) SolarWinds is the outsourced code monkeys who have failed to do their most important job. Most government software projects whether outsourced or developed in-house have been abject failures. Software is hard, particularly while reading Das Kapital.
"Dominion Voting Systems Uses Firm That Enabled US Treasury Hack" .. but one of many ... "SolarWinds … says its products and services are used by more than 300,000 customers around the world, including all five branches of the U.S. military and more than 425 of the U.S. Fortune 500." - centralize everything, then be an easy target. Get rid of in-house IT, those guys are expensive and autistic! This is how a few years ago, 23 million Federal worker and contractor records were stolen from the OMB.
"The only known mitigation measure currently available is to disconnect affected devices .." isn't networking marvelous?
In other news ... "Massive Cyberattack On 40 Israeli Firms Believed To Be Iran's "Revenge" For Assassination" ... but we know from Snowden that the CIA can imitate any other nation/group as the hacker. Also that CIA software was later stolen and put into the Dark Web. For all we know, this US treasury hack was an inside job (the profit motive is obvious).