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Biden Russia Cyberattack Warning Overview
- Who: President Joe Biden has warned American business leaders that cyberattacks on the United States are likely.
- Why: The president said Russia has a strong cyber capacity, and as Putin is put under increasing pressure, he is likely to retaliate with cyberattacks against the United States.
- Where: The comments were made at a Business Roundtable Quarterly Meeting in Washington.
President Joe Biden has issued an urgent warning over impending Russian cyberattacks, telling U.S. business leaders to immediately strengthen their companies’ cyber defenses as Russia’s potential actions could affect consumers.
Speaking at the Business Roundtable Quarterly Meeting in Washington Mar. 21, Biden told business leaders that Russian President Vladimir Putin was likely to retaliate against the United States’ actions against its invasion of Ukraine in the form of cyberattacks.
“The more Putin’s back is against the wall, the greater the severity of the tactics he may employ … one of the tools he’s most likely to use in my view, in our view, is cyberattacks,” Biden said. “The magnitude of Russia’s cyber capacity is fairly consequential and it’s coming.”
Biden earlier issued a statement reiterating earlier warning that intelligence had indicated that the Russian government was exploring options for potential cyberattacks.
Past U.S. intelligence warnings about the timing and manner of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine were largely accurate, Politico reports.
New Cybersecurity Law Requires Rapid Reporting
The United States is already moving to protect critical infrastructure through new legislative requirements.
On Mar. 15, President Biden signed into law a new federal cyberattack reporting requirement that will require operators of critical infrastructure to report cybersecurity episodes within 72 hours of them happening.
The Strengthening American Cybersecurity Act of 2022 was created to strengthen U.S. cyberdefenses and increase the power of agencies investigating cybersecurity incidents.
The new law requires critical infrastructure owners and operators, including certain businesses in the chemical, energy, manufacturing, telecommunications and other sectors, to report to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), a division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, within 72 hours if they experience a substantial cyberattack.
The law also requires critical infrastructure owners and operators to report if they had made ransomware payments to hackers to CISA within 24 hours.
Cyberattacks Increase in U.S.
The move comes as federal lawmakers push to protect the United States against increasingly prevalent threats from nation states like Russia and China.
An October cybersecurity report from Microsoft found Moscow-linked hacking groups are now increasingly targeting United States government organizations with government targets accounting for more than half of their targets for the year through June 2021, compared to just 3% the previous year.
The news comes as the Colonial Pipeline Company faces a lawsuit lodged by consumers and businesses after it had to shut down its pipeline due to a Russian cyberattack in May 2021.
The attack was perpetrated by a Russian hacking group that demanded a ransom after it allegedly gained access into Colonial’s systems. Colonial ultimately paid the hackers $4.4 million to end the assault, in addition to shutting down the pipeline serving vast swaths of the Eastern Seaboard for a time.
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12 thoughts onRussian Cyberattacks on the U.S. Coming, Biden Warns
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They will drain all the working class and cut off everybody’s medical with sophisticated cyber atacks. Its all the wealthy big shot corporate kick but globally. Bifen dodnt say that because they never tell the whole story.
I was waiting for this
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Well I for one just found out that my information was found and used on the dark web in Jan 24, 2022.
The article is about Cybersecurity people, not who is president.
Get off your republican soapbox.
Cybersecurity is always going to be a threat to the United States and we need to be diligent about protecting it, no matter who is president.
why in the world is he still in there. i know they can get him out. UNFIT FOR DUTY!! there is a clause in the constitution letting us get him out of office. he is AN INDANGERMENT TO OUR NATION!!!
Do you know God to be your personal Saviour if you don’t you need to repent? After all Christ is soon to come it does not matter who is president. By the way are you a doctor? and have you diagnosed him personally? Let’s not point fingers.
spot on he’s been a LIAR and a cheat his whole political career which is obscenely lengthy NO ONE SHOULD HOLD OFFICE FOR DECADES ON END LET ALONE HALF A FREAKING CENTURY!
This illegitimate president has dementia and is unfit for office.
How do you know that he is illegitimate? were you there when he was conceived?