The nation’s main federal cybersecurity agency told USA TODAY Tuesday it has been encouraging U.S. organizations to up their security.
Western cybersecurity experts are bracing for the war in Ukraine to spread beyond the country's borders - either intentionally or by accident."Bad things happening in Ukraine can very quickly go elsewhere," says expert Christopher Ahlberg. The nation’s main federal cybersecurity agency told USA TODAY Tuesday it has been encouraging U.S. organizations to up their security.
Because there are no generally accepted international cyber warfare norms, it’s unclear whether a cyberattack against Ukraine that spreads to a NATO-ally, such as Poland or France, would trigger the alliance's Article 5, which states that an attack against one NATO nation is an attack against all. "The more that Russia is cut off from the global finance sector, from the energy markets, from even the internet itself, it no longer has anything to fear from blowback," said Jason Healey, a former White House cyber protection director. "If we deal him out of the game why not just flip the table?"On Monday, three U.S. cybersecurity firms – Cloudflare Inc., CrowdStrike Holdings Inc.
"We don’t know whether Russia will use their really exquisite tools from their government entities, their spy services, or whether they will simply say to all their ransomware criminals, 'have at it,'"Warner said,"because there's at least some level of deniability there." The company has long investigated Russian cyberattacks on Ukraine, including against its power grid in 2015 and 2016. Thefor more than 225,000 people by hitting three regional electronic power distribution companies within 30 minutes of each other.
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