Hackers and cybersecurity

Christopher Wray

Inserted 2 years ago

“This one [Chinese efforts to steal U.S. technology] blew me away. And I'm not the kind of guy that uses words like 'blown away' easily. The FBI is opening a new China related counter-intelligence investigation on average every 12 hours, with over 2,000 such cases currently underway. There is no country that presents a broader, more severe threat to our innovation, our ideas and our economic security than China does. The scale of their hacking program, and the amount of personal and corporate data that their hackers have stolen, is greater than every other country combined.”

Nbcnews

FBI director

01 Feb 2022 3 6

Lotem Finkelstein

Inserted 2 years ago

“Iranian hackers had identified a failure in Israeli understanding about cyber conflict. They realized that they do not need to attack a government agency, which is much more protected, but could easily attack small, private companies, with less sophisticated security, that control enormous amounts of information, including financial or intimate personal information about many citizens.”

Nytimes

Head of intelligence at the cybersecurity company Check Point

27 Nov 2021 3 5

Maysam Behravesh

Inserted 2 years ago

“We are in a dangerous phase. There will be a next round of widespread cyberattack on our infrastructure. We are a step closer to military confrontation.”

Nytimes

Former chief analyst for Iran’s Intelligence Ministry

22 Nov 2021 3 4

David Warshavski

Inserted 2 years ago

“We need to reduce the blast radius. We need to manage the battlefield. Cyberattacks on chip manufacturers are on the rise. There's a lot that can be done ... to not only prevent attacks but to mitigate them as they happen. Companies can limit the blast radius by setting up choke points throughout the network that isolate the spread of the attack and protect the core assets. For example, take semiconductors, we don't mind as much if someone reads someone's emails. What we want is to stop them gaining access to the assets that produce the wafers. This is done by anticipating the hacker's next move. We want to identify them, hunt them, and eradicate them without impacting operations. We can actually lure the threat actor to waste time in a different network segment where we can do no harm while we shore up defenses around the core assets.”

Taiwannews

Vice President of Enterprise Security at Sygnia, a Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity firm

28 Oct 2021 4 3

Microsoft

Inserted 2 years ago

“This recent activity is another indicator that Russia is trying to gain long-term, systematic access to a variety of points in the technology supply chain and establish a mechanism for surveilling - now or in the future - targets of interest to the Russian government. Fortunately, we have discovered this campaign during its early stages, and we are sharing these developments to help cloud service resellers, technology providers, and their customers take timely steps to help ensure Nobelium is not more successful.”

Rferl

Report by Microsoft

24 Oct 2021 5 3

Josep Borrell

Inserted 2 years ago

“Some member states observed malicious cyberactivities, collectively designated as Ghostwriter, and associated these with the Russian state. Such activities are unacceptable as they seek to threaten our integrity and security, democratic values and principles, and the core functioning of our democracies. The Ghostwriter cybercampaign has targeted numerous members of parliaments, government officials, politicians, and members of the press and civil society in the EU, with the hackers accessing computer systems and personal accounts and stealing data.”

Rferl

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy

24 Sep 2021 7 4

Ciaran Martin

Inserted 2 years ago

“What you saw here was real recklessness. The Hafnium attack on Exchange [Microsoft Exchange] was in complete contrast to the Russian exploitation of SolarWinds software for espionage purposes. In that case there was no collateral damage - but as for Hafnium when they realised they had been caught, the hackers booby-trapped the software on the way out.”

Theguardian

Professor of Practice and former CEO of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre

24 Sep 2021 5 5

Joe Biden

Inserted 2 years ago

“The reality is, most of our critical infrastructure is owned and operated by the private sector, and the federal government can't meet this challenge alone. I've invited you all [business and government leaders] here today because you have the power and the capacity and responsibility, I believe, to raise the bar on cybersecurity. And so, ultimately, we've got a lot of work to do.”

Globaltimes

President of the United States

25 Aug 2021 1 2

Joe Biden

Inserted 2 years ago

“I think it's more than likely we're going to end up, if we end up in a war - a real shooting war with a major power - it's going to be as a consequence of a cyber breach of great consequence and it's increasing exponentially, the capabilities.”

Reuters

President of the United States

27 Jul 2021 2 3

Matthew Funaiole

Inserted 2 years ago

“China has long sought asymmetrical areas where they could exert influence in a way that didn't challenge US predominance and preeminence… It takes a lot of money, time and know-how to build a modern navy, but in cyberspace there's a lower threshold for having an impact.”

Aljazeera

Chinese foreign and security policy analyst with the Center for Strategic and International Studies

24 Jul 2021 4 6

Joe Biden

Inserted 2 years ago

“The Chinese government, not unlike the Russian government, is not doing this [cyber hacking] themselves, but are protecting those who are doing it and maybe even accommodating them being able to do it.”

Whitehouse

President of the United States

19 Jul 2021 4 3

Tom Burt

Inserted 2 years ago

“These attacks appear to be a continuation of multiple efforts by Nobelium [hacking group] to target government agencies involved in foreign policy as part of intelligence gathering efforts. This is yet another example of how cyberattacks have become the tool of choice for a growing number of nation-states to accomplish a wide variety of political objectives.”

Rferl

Microsoft Vice President

28 May 2021 4 4

Eric Goldstein

Inserted 2 years ago

“All organizations should really sit up and take notice and make urgent investments to make sure that they're protecting their networks against these threats [ransomware attacks].”

Reuters

CISA’s (U.S. Department of Homeland Security's cyber arm) executive assistant director for cybersecurity

10 May 2021 1 2

David Kennedy

Inserted 2 years ago

“Ransomware is absolutely out of control and one of the biggest threats we face as a nation. The problem we face is most companies are grossly underprepared to face these threats.”

Aljazeera

Founder and senior principal security consultant at TrustedSec

10 May 2021 1 2

Gina Raimondo

Inserted 2 years ago

“Unfortunately, these sorts of attacks [ransomware attacks] are becoming more frequent. We have to work in partnership with business to secure networks to defend ourselves against these attacks.”

Aljazeera

US Secretary of Commerce

09 May 2021 2 3

Algirde Pipikaite

Inserted 2 years ago

“Cybersecurity vulnerabilities have become a systemic issue. Unless cybersecurity measures are embedded in a technology's development phase, we are likely to see more frequent attacks on industrial systems like oil and gas pipelines or water treatment plants.”

Reuters

Cyber strategy lead at the World Economic Forum's Centre for Cybersecurity

08 May 2021 2 2

Antony Blinken

Inserted 3 years ago

“When we’re not engaged, when we don’t lead, then one of two things happen: either some other country tries to take our place, but probably not in a way that advances our interests or values. Or no one does, and then you get chaos. Either way, that does not serve the American people. We’ll engage the world not as it was, but as it is. A world of rising nationalism, receding democracy, growing rivalry with China, Russia, and other authoritarian states, mounting threats to a stable and open international system, and a technological revolution that is reshaping every aspect of our lives, especially in cyberspace.”

Reuters

U.S. Secretary of State chosen by President-elect Joe Biden

19 Jan 2021 6 5

Donald Trump

Inserted 3 years ago

“The Cyber Hack is far greater in the Fake News Media than in actuality. Russia, Russia, Russia is the priority chant when anything happens because Lamestream is, for mostly financial reasons, petrified of discussing the possibility that it may be China (it may!).”

Reuters

President of the United States

19 Dec 2020 3 3

Mike Pompeo

Inserted 3 years ago

“I can't say much more as we're still unpacking precisely what it is, and I'm sure some of it will remain classified. This was a very significant effort, and I think it's the case that now we can say pretty clearly that it was the Russians that engaged in this activity.”

Nbcnews

U.S. Secretary of State

18 Dec 2020 3 2

Kevin Mandia

Inserted 3 years ago

“Based on my 25 years in cyber security and responding to incidents, I’ve concluded we are witnessing an attack by a nation with top-tier offensive capabilities. This attack is different from the tens of thousands of incidents we have responded to throughout the years. The attackers tailored their world-class capabilities specifically to target and attack FireEye. They are highly trained in operational security and executed with discipline and focus. They operated clandestinely, using methods that counter security tools and forensic examination. They used a novel combination of techniques not witnessed by us or our partners in the past.”

Fireeye

FireEye Chief Executive Officer

08 Dec 2020 1 2

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“We are in a dangerous phase. There will be a next round of widespread cyberattack on our infrastructure. We are a step closer to military confrontation.”

“I think it's more than likely we're going to end up, if we end up in a war - a real shooting war with a major power - it's going to be as a consequence of a cyber breach of great consequence and it's increasing exponentially, the capabilities.”

“China has long sought asymmetrical areas where they could exert influence in a way that didn't challenge US predominance and preeminence… It takes a lot of money, time and know-how to build a modern navy, but in cyberspace there's a lower threshold for having an impact.”

“The Chinese government, not unlike the Russian government, is not doing this [cyber hacking] themselves, but are protecting those who are doing it and maybe even accommodating them being able to do it.”

“All organizations should really sit up and take notice and make urgent investments to make sure that they're protecting their networks against these threats [ransomware attacks].”

“Ransomware is absolutely out of control and one of the biggest threats we face as a nation. The problem we face is most companies are grossly underprepared to face these threats.”

“Unfortunately, these sorts of attacks [ransomware attacks] are becoming more frequent. We have to work in partnership with business to secure networks to defend ourselves against these attacks.”

“Cybersecurity vulnerabilities have become a systemic issue. Unless cybersecurity measures are embedded in a technology's development phase, we are likely to see more frequent attacks on industrial systems like oil and gas pipelines or water treatment plants.”

“The Cyber Hack is far greater in the Fake News Media than in actuality. Russia, Russia, Russia is the priority chant when anything happens because Lamestream is, for mostly financial reasons, petrified of discussing the possibility that it may be China (it may!).”

“I can't say much more as we're still unpacking precisely what it is, and I'm sure some of it will remain classified. This was a very significant effort, and I think it's the case that now we can say pretty clearly that it was the Russians that engaged in this activity.”

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