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CYBER COMMAND PUBLICLY JOINS FIGHT AGAINST RANSOMWARE GROUPS
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December 6, 2021 3:45 pm
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U.S. military acknowledges targeting cybercriminals who launch attacks on U.S.
companies.
Cybercriminals who launch attacks on critical U.S. companies are going to be
targeted by the branch of the military known as Cyber Command, and everyone has
been put on notice.
Gen. Paul Nakasone, who heads up Cyber Command, told the New York Times this
weekend that his team isn’t just going after state actors, but that they’re
taking on any cybercriminals who attack American infrastructure.
“Before, during and since, with a number of elements of our government, we have
taken actions and we have imposed costs,” Nakasone said in the New York Times,
according to CNN. “That’s an important piece that we should always be mindful
of.”
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Law enforcement has had a few successes taking down malware operator groups like
TrickBot and REvil, and taking down DarkSide‘s servers following its attack on
the Colonial Pipeline, but the rise in cybercrime across almost every sector is
undeniable.
Now the feds have called in the military.
Cyber Command’s public entry into the fray presents a whole new set of
challenges for cybercriminals who previously enjoyed legal protections from law
enforcement in their own countries and found sanction workarounds, Max Galka,
CEO of Elementus explained to Threatpost.
“Direct involvement by the military is quite a shift,” Galka said. “It’s
appropriate that the U.S military has stepped in. As a result of U.S.
intervention over the last one or two years, a number of ransomware operators
have responded by disappearing from the scene and offering in some cases free
decryption tools to undo the damage.”
That itself proves the threat of consequence for cybercrime works.
“I expect this latest escalation will result in some of them retreating from the
scene,” Galka added.
MORE CONSEQUENCES, FEWER CYBERATTACKS
If the threat of being targeted by Cyber Command is scary enough to drive a few
attackers out of business, that’s good news for the private sector, according to
Rick Holland, vice president of Digital Shadows, which could use a bit of help
under the weight of crushing cyberthreats to their organizations.
“Sanctions and FBI attempts to recover extortion payments can’t be done in
isolation,” Holland told Threatpost. “Notification and recovery activities can’t
be the only answer to minimizing extortion risks. Prevention, detection,
response and recovery must work hand-in-hand.”
The military’s involvement in national security issues makes sense, but
BreachQuest’s chief technology officer Jake Williams told Threatpost that the
private sector should be mindful of overreach.
“Given the rich history of separation between military and law enforcement in
the U.S., this should be viewed with extreme caution,” Williams said. “When
cybercrime intersects with national-security concerns, military response is
likely appropriate. However, we should be cautious about military involvement in
the majority of cybercrime operations, whether from an investigative or response
standpoint.”
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