No details were given about the US cyber attack, only that the incident took place between February and August last year.

The U.S. government's cyber command has for the first time carried out a first-of-its-kind "offensive cyber operation" against real threats, in the presence of U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.

WAR ZONE reports that no details were given about the U.S. cyber attack, only that the incident took place between February and August last year, and the operations were a task force composed of members of the National Guard of the State of Delaware and Maryland, the Navy's 63rd Cyber Squadron, the 341st Cyber Squadron of the Corps. Air and other experts.

One of the officers involved in the incident, Major Coley Redford, said that the Ministry of Defense was involved in the operation, "We successfully carried out an offensive cyber operation, there was a lot of excitement because it was our first real test, and we could see the final results." 

Defense Secretary Austin Lloyd was present at the scene and it was explained that he asked to be present because of the importance of the event to see with his own eyes the activity.

Since 2015, the U.S. National Guard has been active in the cyber field in collaboration with the Pentagon, with the goal of providing assistance to government agencies in an emergency. Cyber.

Cyber experts explain that many cyber attacks have occurred in recent years, and yet some of the critical infrastructure in the U.S. is infiltrated by cyber attacks, hence the Pentagon's focus on defensive and offensive cyber so that the administration has a rapid response capability in cases of serious cyber threats.