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New Cyber Weapons Are Here And No One Is Prepared, Experts Say – United States
Cyberattacks soon will destroy infrastructure and kill people. And that might be what it takes for policy leaders to prepare for what’s coming, experts said. A panel of four experts from military, finance, cyber and strategy laid out frightening scenarios at the New America Future of War conference Monday that are not far-off possibilities but things that are happening now. Peter W. Singer, author of the novel “Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War,” and New America senior fellow, told the audience in Washington, D.C., that data breaches, cyber probes and power shutdowns in other countries haven’t been given the attention they truly need. And the enemy is watching that lack of response. “We will see kinetic attacks on the Internet of Things that will break things and kill people,” Singer said. Robert M. Lee, a former National Security Agency cyber expert and current CEO of Dragos Inc., pointed to a new development that is a first in cyber-attacks. A piece of malware called Trisis was used to sabotage an industrial control system of an electric company. But it was more than just an attack on electric power. “It was the first piece of malware specifically designed to kill people,” Lee said.
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Facebook Shut Down Accounts Linked To Russian Intelligence – United States
Facebook shut down accounts linked to hackers widely believed to be operating on the Russian government’s behalf before the 2016 presidential election, CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to tell Congress this week. In summer 2016, Facebook identified accounts linked to APT 28, a cyber espionage group also known as “Fancy Bear” that the U.S. intelligence community and some private security firms have linked to Russian military intelligence or the Russian government, according to Zuckerberg’s prepared testimony released on Monday. Zuckerberg will testify that the accounts “created fake personas that were used to seed stolen information to journalists” under the name of DCLeaks, in reference to the website that published hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in summer 2016. “We shut these accounts down for violating our policies,” Zuckerberg will say. The U.S. intelligence community has accused the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence arm, of using DCLeaks, the Guccifer 2.0 persona, and WikiLeaks to release hacked Democratic emails in the months leading up to the election.
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Qatar Leader Expected at White House Amid Crisis – Washington D.C, United States
President Donald Trump is hosting the ruling emir of Qatar for a White House meeting, welcoming a leader whose tiny gas-rich nation he once accused of funding terrorism at a “high level.” With America’s allies in the Persian Gulf feuding with Qatar, there has been almost zero progress toward resolving their dispute since it erupted 10 months ago. Trump was more than a bit player in the inception of that crisis: He sided firmly with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and other neighbors who accused Qatar of spreading extremism, fomenting regional unrest and allowing funds to flow to terror groups. Qatar denies all those charges. Trump hasn’t repeated that charge in recent months, and Qatar has since taken steps to address U.S. concerns, even allowing Treasury Department officials into its central bank to improve accountability for controls to prevent terror funding. So far, those steps haven’t been enough to persuade Qatar’s neighbors to stop squeezing the country diplomatically and financially.
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