https://www.cyberscoop.com/rob-joyce-nsa-disrupt-foreign-hacking/
By Sean Lyngaas
CYBERSCOOP
February 28, 2019
The United States will do more to disrupt the malicious cyber-activity that
foreign adversaries are aggressively using to advance their interests, a
National Security Agency official said Thursday.
"We have to impose costs in a visible way to start deterrence," said Rob Joyce,
senior cybersecurity adviser at NSA. "We have to go out and try to make those
operations less successful and harder to do."
Speaking to an industry association in Hanover, Maryland, Joyce cited the 2017
WannaCry and NotPetya malware outbreaks -- and Russia's use of information
operations in the 2016 U.S. election -- as examples of nation-states moving
from "exploitation to disruption" to impose their will in cyberspace.
Washington has blamed North Korea and Russia, respectively, for the devastating
WannaCry and NotPetya attacks, which cost billions of dollars in economic
damage.
Some foreign governments have less legal constraints on their activities in
cyberspace than the U.S., Joyce told a local chapter of the Armed Forces
Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA).
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