Impact Remains to be Seen
Tim Wade is technical director of Vectra’s CTO team.
“This action underscores the increasing degree to which nation-states leverage non-government entities as a strategic extension of their state cyber capabilities, which include actors drawn from criminal organizations in addition to the private sector,” he said. “In this specific case, the Treasury has drawn a direct line of sight between these sanctions and the destabilizing role that the FSB (Russia’s successor to the KGB), GRU (Russia’s military intelligence agency), and SVR have played in the recent SolarWinds attacks. The degree to which this acts as an effective deterrence, however, remains to be seen.”
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