DHS, FBI name Russia in DragonFly 2.0 attacks on critical infrastructure

March 15th, 2018 By Teri Robinson
 
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) took the unusual step Thursday of issuing an alert fingering the Russian government for targeting U.S. critical infrastructure with cyberattacks.
 
"The fact that the DHS and the FBI have attributed attempts to attack and compromise critical U.S. infrastructure to Russia is unprecedented and extraordinary,” said Amit Yoran, CEO at Tenable. “From my time as the founding director of the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) in the Department of Homeland Security, I have never seen anything like this. It's a wake-up call for the industry and a reminder that we are still not doing the basics well and that our defense needs to constantly evolve and adapt."
 
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