WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) - The US is making countering attempts by foreign adversaries to undermine American democracy and weaken alliances a top intelligence priority on par with protecting critical infrastructure and stopping hacking attacks, according to a new national counterintelligence strategy.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON - The US is making countering attempts by foreign adversaries to undermine American democracy and weaken alliances a top intelligence priority on par with protecting critical infrastructure and stopping hacking attacks, according to a new national counterintelligence strategy.
"Our adversaries regard deception or manipulation of the views of US citizens and policymakers to be an effective, inexpensive and low-risk method for achieving their strategic objectives," according to the 20-page strategy. Other objectives in the strategy are more traditional, such as protecting US critical infrastructure, defending against hacking operations from overseas, reducing threats to supply chains and countering economic exploitation.
More foreign adversaries also have been enabled by the public release of US intelligence cybersecurity tools, the document states. A group known as the Shadow Brokers, for example, leaked hacking tools apparently used by the National Security Agency in 2016 and 2017.
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