Russia Sanctions May Spark Escalating Cyber Conflict
Summary: President Biden joined European leaders in enacting economic sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, and experts quoted in the article warn those sanctions will almost certainly trigger Russian cyber retaliation against the West. Michael Daniel, former White House cybersecurity advisor and head of the Cyber Threat Alliance, described two concerns: spillover and collateral damage from self-propagating malware akin to NotPetya, and direct attacks on Western organizations in retaliation for sanctions.
Why it matters: Dmitri Alperovitch, co-founder and former CTO of CrowdStrike, said a Russian retaliation could make the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack look like child's play, and that tit-for-tat cyber strikes could spill into a hot conflict between two nuclear powers.
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