{"id":1392533,"date":"2022-03-21T17:15:23","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T21:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1392533"},"modified":"2022-03-21T17:15:32","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T21:15:32","slug":"biden-warns-of-evolving-intelligence-surrounding-possible-russian-cyberattacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-warns-of-evolving-intelligence-surrounding-possible-russian-cyberattacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Warns Of \u2018Evolving Intelligence\u2019 Surrounding Possible Russian Cyberattacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-warns-of-evolving-intelligence-surrounding-possible-russian-cyberattacks%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1392533&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden warned of \u201cevolving intelligence\u201d that suggests Russia \u201cis exploring options for potential cyberattacks\u201d against the U.S. on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The administration has previously warned about <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/24\/these-are-russias-cyber-warfare-units-that-wreak-havoc\/\">Russia\u2019s<\/a> potential for conducting \u201cmalicious cyber activity against the\u201d U.S. as war <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/18\/us-russia-cyber-attack-ukraine-invasion\/\">continues<\/a> to rage in Ukraine, Biden noted in his statement on Monday. However, this latest warning marks the president\u2019s sharpest yet on the topic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a critical moment to accelerate our work to improve domestic cybersecurity and bolster our national resilience,\u201d Biden said in Monday\u2019s statement. \u201cI have previously warned about the potential that Russia could conduct malicious cyber activity against the United States, including as a response to the unprecedented economic costs we\u2019ve imposed on Russia alongside our allies and partners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s part of Russia\u2019s playbook. Today, my administration is reiterating those warnings based on evolving intelligence that the Russian Government is exploring options for potential cyberattacks,\u201d Biden added.<\/p>\n<p>Anne Neuberger, Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology, tried to explain the \u201cevolving intelligence\u201d during Monday afternoon\u2019s press briefing at the White House. She noted that \u201cthere is no intelligence that there will be a cyberattack on critical infrastructure,\u201d but said the administration\u2019s latest warnings are \u201cbased on evolving threat intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no evidence of any specific cyberattack that we\u2019re anticipating,\u201d Neuberger clarified. \u201cThere is some preparatory activity that we\u2019re seeing, and that is what we shared in a classified context with companies that we thought might be affected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Deputy National Security Advisor Anne Neuberger: \u201cThe Russian government is exploring options for potential cyber attacks on critical infrastructure in the United States. To be clear, there is no certainty there will be a cyber incident on critical infrastructure.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/asAd3BKLIT\">pic.twitter.com\/asAd3BKLIT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CSPAN (@cspan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cspan\/status\/1505982017476956174?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Neuberger declined to detail which private <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/24\/russian-government-websites-ukraine-cyber-attack\/\">sectors<\/a> in particular may be targeted in possible Russian cyberattacks, but said those companies and sectors have been informed via \u201cclassified briefings\u201d last week. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/24\/russia-ukraine-cyber-attack-putin-zelensky\/\">(RELATED:\u00a0Russia Deploys \u2018Data-Wiping Malware\u2019 To Cripple Ukrainian Government Systems)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biden, in his statement, urged private sector companies \u201cto harden\u201d their cyber defenses \u201cimmediately.\u201d The administration also provided a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2022\/03\/21\/fact-sheet-act-now-to-protect-against-potential-cyberattacks\/\">fact sheet<\/a> detailing efforts companies can implement to protect against a possible cyber attack.<\/p>\n<p>These efforts include mandating multi-factor authentication, implementing \u201cmodern security tools\u201d on computers and devices, running emergency exercises to ensure preparedness and more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have the power, the capacity, and the responsibility to strengthen the cybersecurity and resilience of the critical services and technologies on which Americans rely. We need everyone to do their part to meet one of the defining threats of our time \u2014 your vigilance and urgency today can prevent or mitigate attacks tomorrow,\u201d Biden added in his statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden warned of \u201cevolving intelligence\u201d that suggests Russia \u201cis exploring options for potential cyberattacks\u201d against the U.S. on Monday.The administration has previously warned about Russia\u2019s potential for conducting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1392533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1392533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1392533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1392533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1392533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}