DoD: It’s Not Just State Actors Who Pose Cyber Threat to US

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Source: U.S. DoD
Source: U.S. DoD

June 1, 2022 | Originally published by U.S. Department of Defense on May 20, 2022

“It’s not just hackers operating at the behest of adversarial nation states who pose a threat to U.S. cyber infrastructure — it’s cyber criminals who are just in it for the money,” said the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy.

“Many in the Defense Department have long viewed the cyber threat in terms of nation-on-nation,” said Mieke Eoyang, who spoke Friday at TruCon2022, the Truman Center for National Policy’s annual conference.

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