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House passes deterrence bill that would call out nation-state hackers

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The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bipartisan bill aimed at deterring foreign governments from conducting operations against U.S. critical infrastructure. The Cyber Deterrence and Response Act put forth by Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., calls on the president to identify individuals and organizations engaged in state-sponsored hacking that significantly threatens U.S. interests., and then to impose one or more of a slew of sanctions on them. That “naming and shaming” approach is an effort to ward off future cyberattacks from China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea — four countries that U.S. officials routinely label as top adversaries in cyberspace. The bill, which passed the House by voice vote, also calls for a uniform list of foreign hacking groups to be published on the Federal Register. Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., last month introduced companion legislation in the Senate. “Our foreign adversaries have developed sophisticated cyber capabilities that disrupt our networks, […]

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Bill would call on White House to develop its own list of APT groups

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A bill that passed the House Foreign Affairs Committee Tuesday calls on the White House to develop a publicly available list of advanced persistent threat groups named by the U.S. government. In broad strokes, the bill — the “Cyber Deterrence and Response Act of 2018‘ — seeks to establish a cyber deterrence strategy for which the government can act on after the country’s been attacked by foreign hackers. The bill was introduced by Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla. Included in the bill are various policy changes and new controls on how the executive branch can increase costs on adversaries if they target U.S. companies or government agencies in cyberspace. Among its many recommendations, the bill calls for a comprehensive and uniform list of foreign hacking groups, so that there’s at least common terminology across government when discussing certain cyberthreats. Such a list would be the first of its kind. Housed within the Federal Register, […]

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