DHS Warns That Russia Would Consider a Cyberattack on the U.S.
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A Department of Homeland Security intelligence bulletin sent to critical infrastructure operators and state and local governments warned that Russia would consider conducting a cyberattack on the US homeland if Moscow perceived that a US or NATO response to a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine "threatened [Russia's] long-term national security.”
"Russia maintains a range of offensive cyber tools that it could employ against US networks—from low-level denials-of-service to destructive attacks targeting critical infrastructure," the January 23 memo says. Ukraine has long been a proving ground for Russia’s destructive cyber capabilities, with suspected Russian hackers cutting power in parts of Ukraine in 2015 and 2016 and releasing the devastating NotPetya malware in 2017, which infected organizations in Ukraine but spread globally. (Sean Lyngaas / CNN
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