DOJ warned of 'alliances' between hacker groups and foreign nations such as China, Russia, and North Korea to form a 'blended threat' posing both criminal and national security challenges to the United States.
The warning came in DOJ’s new Comprehensive Cyber Review report on Tuesday, the result of an internal effort led by Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco to prepare DOJ to handle the complicated challenges posed by the sometimes murky cyber landscape.
The Justice Department discussed “cybercrime as means to generate income for malicious foreign governments” and said the department “has seen a rise in hackers with nation-state ties using cybercrime as a way to generate income that can be funneled into other national security threats.” The report specifically pointed to a 2021 indictment against hackers from North Korea who allegedly participated in online hacking and extortion schemes targeting $1.
The report then specifically pointed to two 2020 Chinese hacking efforts, one in which a hacker bragged about his links to China’s Ministry of State Security and another in which DOJ flat-out said the hackers were working with the Chinese intelligence agency to target COVID-19 research. DOJ also cited a Russian Federal Security Service effort in 2017 targeting Yahoo! email accounts.
The report said that both DOJ's Criminal Division and its National Security Division are key to the department’s work in the cyber realm but that “today’s cyber threat cannot be neatly addressed by the traditional taxonomy of identifying threats as primarily ‘criminal’ or ‘national security’ in nature.”
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