Confronting a Cybersecurity Analyst on Putin’s Hackers | Nicole Perlroth | Ep. 542
The US critical infrastructure is highly vulnerable to cyber attacks due to reliance on private sector ownership, poor security hygiene like missing two-factor authentication, and outdated software.summaryNation-state actors, particularly Russia, are using supply chain attacks and proxy criminal groups to cause collateral damage globally, with a predicted major kinetic cyber attack within four years.summaryThe Not Petya attack (2017) caused $10 billion in damages by exploiting a stolen NSA zero-day exploit (EternalBlue) via a compromised Ukrainian tax software update, demonstrating how targeted attacks cause massive globaltakeaway














