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Cyber

Krebs Outlines Three Threat Lines Amid COVID Pandemic

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, September 8th, 2020

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Krebs Outlines Three Threat Lines Amid COVID Pandemic

Christopher Krebs, former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at DHS. Photo: DHS

Traditional nation-state actors, cyber criminals and disinformation campaigns are the three “primary lines of attack” in the nation’s threat landscape that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is currently observing and responding to, agency chief Christopher Krebs said on Tuesday. On the cyber security front, nation-state actors are doing what they’ve always done, such as trying to understand the status of development for a COVID-19 vaccine, the economic health of the U.S., and what policies are “shifting,” Krebs said…

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