July 28, 2021: President Joe Biden has warned that cyber-attacks could escalate into a full-blown war as tensions with Russia and China escalate over a number of hacking incidents targeting US government agencies, companies and infrastructure.
Joe Biden said Tuesday that the dangers of science, including ransomware attacks, are “increasingly damaging and disruptive to the real world.” The president said in a speech in the office of the Office of National Intelligence, which oversees 18 US intelligence agencies. “If we end up in a war, a real war of attrition with major power, this would be a consequence of cyber breach.
Numerous recent hacks have revealed the extent of the US cyber threat, ranging from widespread espionage breaches to ransomware attacks on the heart of the government, shutting down a major oil pipeline and meat packing plants
The Joe Biden administration has accused the governments of Russia and China, or hackers based in both countries, of carrying out attacks. U.S. officials have warned that the administration will respond to the “mix of seen and seen tools” measures, but cyber violations continue.
Although he did not say against whom such a war could be fought, Biden immediately checked the name of Russian President Vladimir Putin and accused Russia of spreading false information ahead of the 2022 US midterm elections. “This is a pure violation of our sovereignty,” he said.
“Mr Putin . . . has a real problem. He is sitting on top of an economy that has nuclear weapons and oil wells and nothing else. Nothing else,” Joe Biden said. “He knows he’s in real trouble, which makes him even more dangerous.”
At a June meeting in Geneva, President Joe Biden personally warned Putin that the United States would “respond with cyber power” if hackers from the Russian state or Russia targeted key US infrastructure. Vital sectors include energy, healthcare, IT and commercial facilities, all of which have already been targeted by Russian hackers since the 2020 US election.
Some other sectors included transport, financial services and chemicals. Biden also said that Chinese President Xi Jinping was “deadly” about China becoming the world’s most powerful military power by the 2040s, as well as its largest and most prominent economy. “It’s real… Biden added, ‘This guy has a plan,'” he added.
US President Joe Biden emphasized that cyber-attacks were only one aspect of the growing threat to the United States, adding that the next 10 years would see more progress than in the past 50 years and would place a tremendous burden on the intelligence community. Is. “It’s really going to get harder,” he said.
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