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FBI Director Christopher Wray urged cooperation between state and private entities in an effort to combat widespread threats of ransomware and cyberattacks from rogue nations and rival states to target vital U.S. infrastructure and civilian targets, including hospitals, schools and local law enforcement.
“Malicious cyber actors are going to continue to take advantage of people and networks,” Wray said during a conference on Wednesday. “That includes cyber criminals holding data for ransom and nation-states like China stealing defense and industrial secrets and lately, that’s included Russia trying to influence what happens in the ground war.”
Wray spoke at the Boston Conference on Cybersecurity, outlining the various threats to American citizens and infrastructure that rogue operators and rival states pose.
“We’ve got a 24/7 Cyber Command post running, and we’ve been pushing out intelligence products and technical indicators, not just to government partners, but also to private companies and others,” Wray explained.
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The director outlined how these rival states look to utilize cyber warfare in times of conflict and against civilian targets: He discussed how ransomware “gangs,” often state-sponsored, will attack everything from oil and gas pipelines to schools and local governments.
Wray claimed that in 2021 the FBI recorded ransomware attacks “against 14 of the 16 U.S. critical infrastructure sectors,” which includes health care and “a lot of other things we depend on.”
“Last May, for example, the FBI’s cyber team here in Boston uncovered important indicators of compromise for the Avadon ransomware strain,” Wray said. “Avadon was one of the most prolific ransomware variants in the world at the time. Our folks quickly published what they found to warn the public.”
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