While there's no evidence of a specific cyberattack threat, Anne Neuberger told reporters Monday afternoon that U.S. officials have observed 'preparatory work' linked to nation-state actors.
"The magnitude of Russia's cyber capacity is fairly consequential," Mr. Biden said, addressing the Business Roundtable, an association of some of the nation's largest corporations."And it's coming."
, potential targets include the U.S. financial sector, electric grid, water treatment plants and hospitals. The White House push comes just days before the president is set to embark on a trip to Brussels for a NATO summit on Thursday before heading to Poland and amid the U.S. government's efforts to declassify intelligence about Russia's plans in Ukraine. The U.S. has previously disclosed its findings to deter the Kremlin and other adversaries from following through on plans and undermine attempts at plausible deniability.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Monday encouraged organizations"of every size and across every sector" to report cyber incidents to CISA or their local FBI field office."DHS will continue to share timely and actionable information and intelligence to ensure our partners and the public have the tools they need to keep our communities safe and secure, and increase nationwide cybersecurity preparedness," Mayorkas added.
Easterly, the director of the nation's cyber defense agency, said she is increasingly worried about"vigilance fatigue" among U.S. companies sprinting to secure their networks."It is hard to maintain a very high tempo of extreme preparedness, but we are not even a month into this unjust, illegal, unprovoked invasion of a democracy and we need to continue to keep our shields up.
Since February 15, the Ukrainian government said it has suffered over 3,000 DDoS or"distributed denial of service attacks," that have barraged government websites with traffic until they grind to a halt.
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