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We Are Now On The Offensive... The Target? The Russian Power Grid

June 17, 2019 by Marc Handelman in Cyber Statecraft, Cyberwar, Information Warfare, Information Security

via Paul Szoldra writing at Task And Purpose, comes a superlative piece on the United States Cyber Command's cible du jour: The Russian Power Grid. This news, arrives via outstanding reporting of two of the The New York Times' highly respected correspondents and authors, namely - David E. Sanger and Nicole Perlroth.

"In interviews over the past three months, the officials described the previously unreported deployment of American computer code inside Russia’s grid and other targets as a classified companion to more publicly discussed action directed at Moscow’s disinformation and hacking units around the 2018 midterm elections." - via correspondents David E. Sanger and Nicole Perlroth reporting for The New York Times'

June 17, 2019 /Marc Handelman
Cyber Statecraft, Cyberwar, Information Warfare, Information Security
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