Former Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Chris Krebs has named ransomware as the world’s top cyber threat, and called on the military to carry out counter-attacks.
Krebs said ransomware was a bigger threat than state-sponsored espionage activity such as the widespread SolarWinds hack.
In an interview with the Financial Times [subscription required], he said the military would be justified in carrying out countermeasures, such as publicly disclosing the attackers’ identities, a practice known as doxxing.
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