Russia is a threat to the United States from the point of view of cybersecurity, said the Director of national intelligence Dan Coates.
“Russia is a full-scale player in cybersphere, which will remain a serious threat to U.S. government military, diplomatic, commercial and critical infrastructure”, – stated in the report of the Director N. I., released on Thursday by the intelligence Committee of the U.S. Senate.
As the report notes, “has a highly effective kiberprestupniki offensive, and in recent years, the Kremlin began to play in cybersphere more aggressive.”
The document in this context refers to the fact that Russia carried out “attempts to influence the election of 2016”, it also contains a charge Moscow that it carried out the cyber attacks in other countries.
