/ world today news/ In March 2023, the Biden administration published a new US cybersecurity strategy.
The enemy is clearly marked: “The governments of China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and other autocratic states … are aggressively using advanced cyber capabilities to achieve goals that run counter to our interests and generally accepted international norms. Their reckless disregard for the rule of law and human rights in cyberspace threatens the national security and economic prosperity of the United States.”
It is openly said that subversive activities will be carried out against the aforementioned four countries that the US will build “network of networks” to achieve situational awareness and create conditions for the synchronization of actions, including increasing the speed of production and exchange of intelligence information.
At the same time, initiatives by Russia and China to establish clear and understandable rules for governing global cyberspace are still being ignored by Washington.
Emily Harding of the Center for Strategic and International Studies notes: “The government is determined to clean its own house… The Office of the Director of National Cyber Security and its partners must accelerate the good work they have already done by working with industry leaders.”
The emergence of this strategy was preceded by the annual report of the American intelligence community, published in February 2023. We quote excerpts from the report:
„China is perhaps the most pervasive, active and ongoing cyberespionage threat to US public and private sector networks today.”
„Iran’s growing experience and willingness to conduct aggressive cyber operations make it a serious threat to the network and data security of the United States and its allies…
„North Korea’s cyber program is a sophisticated and flexible espionage, cybercrime and attack threat… Pyongyang likely has attempts to cause temporary, limited disruptions to some critical infrastructure networks and to disrupt business networks in the United States.”
It also states that “the exploitation of confidential data of American citizens and the illegal use of technology, including commercial spyware and surveillance technologies, are likely to continue to threaten US interests.”
We find the same with the structure of the Alliance for the Defense of Democracies. This report also refers to China’s role in the spread of “pro-Kremlin narratives”. Bans in Russia, the Atlantic Council*, which is NATO’s think tank, issued a similar report, which is now widely cited.
The chain reaction of articles and links to each other as authoritative sources creates a cascading effect.
Attention should be paid to the US Department of Defense budget for 2024. It includes the US Cyber Command request for the first time. $332.6 million is requested for plant operations and maintenance, $129 million for supplies and $1.1 billion for research, development and testing.
Overall, the US Department of Defense expects to spend $13.5 billion on cyberspace activities in fiscal year 2024. Some time ago, this figure was $600 million. Pentagon spending on cyberspace activities has increased more than 20-fold.
For conducting cyber operations, they have their own structural units in the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps (each with their own budget), and indicators indicate that the greatest attention will be paid to cyber operations by the US military in the near future. Only the number of specialized teams will be increased from 142 to 147.
Comparing these data, we can conclude that in the very near future we should expect an explosive jump in cyber attacks against Russia, as well as against China, Iran and North Korea.
Translation: EU
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