The Clop ransomware gang has started creating publicly accessible websites to leak the data it stole in the recent MOVEit Transfer data theft attacks. Citing.
and they use those in their hacking capabilities. it s such a fantastic point. it shows china, like russia, will use these hacking groups in event as nonstate actors, but brought in, drafted into the national efforts to breach sensitive information. you were so involved in investigating russian interference in the 2016 election, which was impactful. we know that. they did it again in 2020. we re coming up on another election. how safe are the systems? i m not talking about election vote counting systems, but systems in general. are our protections better today than seven years ago, three years ago? jim, i got to say the hair on the back of my neck stood up thinking about 2020 and what we have in store in 2024. look, any software has potential
we should be getting a lot better on the government side. what has me so concerned about this hack was the penetration of research labs, the department of energy and oatss. i don t think we have a full damage assessment yet. the difficulty is with your smaller mom and pops that may have some critical technology but trying to grow their business. so to have this full cyberinfrastructure. how does the government help with resources to these small start-ups that may have critical technologies our adversaries want and what we re seeing with both the russians and chinese is they are leveraging and putting fuel on the fire of these hacking groups. this is economic warfare from our adversaries on our economy and infrastructure. often they are using it to gain market share for their companies in the same spaces. that is just something we re not organized as a society and government with our walls between government and private
hello, i m christian fraser. you re watching the context on bbc news. the british government warns businesses of serious cyber threats from russia aligned hacking groups. yeah, let s get more on that. the british government warned british business today that hacking groups aligned to, and with, the russian state could be preparing to target uk infrastructure. oliver dowden, the chancellor of the duchy of lancaster, has issued warnings about cyber attacks in the past, but there appeared to be a step change in the severity of these warnings. in the uk, we grasp the need