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The comments from White House and ODNI officials ahead of a Counter Ransomware Initiative summit come as the gangs prove difficult to keep down.
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Laura Galante comes to the role after several years of running her own cybersecurity firm. The Ukrainian government was one of her clients.
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The U.S. intelligence community’s center for analyzing cyberthreat data got a new director Wednesday in Erin Joe, a career FBI official with experience dealing with nation-state-level threats. Joe becomes the second director of the four-year-old Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center at a time when nation-state hacking threats to U.S. organizations have been steady. She most recently served as a senior FBI executive focusing on nation-state hacking and “cyberterrorism” threats, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said in announcing her appointment. As part of a 22-year career as an FBI field officer, Joe investigated the perpetrators of the September 11, 2001 attacks and led terrorism investigations across the Middle East, according to a biography on the RSA Conference website. CTIIC is a small agency comprised of officials from intelligence, law enforcement, and other agencies whose task is to quickly get cyberthreat intelligence into the hands of federal officials. President Barack […]
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A national intelligence strategy released Tuesday calls on U.S. spy agencies to improve their understanding of what is driving foreign adversaries’ growing cyber capabilities. The strategy, published by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, pledges that intelligence agencies will “increase our awareness and understanding of adversaries’ use of cyber operations—including leadership plans, intentions, capabilities, and operations— to inform decisions and enable action.” The stakes are high; America’s spies must keep pace with growing list of hacking capabilities at adversaries’ disposal, according to the ODNI. “As the cyber capabilities of our adversaries grow, they will pose increasing threats to U.S. security, including critical infrastructure, public health and safety, economic prosperity, and stability,” the document says. There has been no shortage of recent foreign hacking threats to U.S. public and private organizations, from suspected Iranian targeting of domain name systems to alleged Chinese economic espionage. The new strategy recognizes that the […]
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Private sector security companies had a key role in the U.S. government’s attribution of last year’s WannaCry ransomware epidemic to North Korea, an official at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) said on Friday. Speaking at a Washington Post Live event, Tonya Ugoretz, director of ODNI’s Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center (CTIIC), said that the small agency she leads acted as a liaison to get critical information about the global attack from the private sector to U.S. intelligence agencies. Ugoretz said that CTIIC learned of information about WannaCry that had been fed to Department of Homeland Security by its private sector partners. The information would play an important role in the attribution to North Korea months later, Ugoretz explained. CTIIC comprises staff from intelligence, law enforcement and other federal agencies with the goal of helping coordinate responses to cyberthreats. “DHS had that by virtue of their private sector relationships, and we asked […]
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