MADRID, 11 (EUROPA PRESS)
The Administration of US President Joe Biden has announced a new plan to strengthen and protect the country’s infrastructure against cyberattacks carried out mainly by Russia and China.
The authorities have thus indicated that fines will be imposed against those contractors who do not report computer attacks, a measure put on the table as a result of the ‘hack’ suffered by the Colonial pipeline in May.
The White House has also announced that it is working to implement an action plan that involves “vital sectors” such as energy, according to information from CNN.
For the Government, the protection of transport and energy infrastructures is a “priority”. The Deputy Secretary of Defense, Kathleen Hicks, has assured that this will have a “direct implication in the military operations carried out for the future”.
“We believe that these objectives are the main ones for China or Russia when they study the possibility of carrying out military campaigns,” he asserted. Thus, he explained that these two countries continue to be the main point “to observe” by the Department of Defense “due to their capacity”, although Iran is also in the spotlight.
“The linking of the homeland to military campaigns abroad is not something that most Americans think about,” Hicks pointed out before clarifying that “it is not something that the Department of Defense has had to worry about during years”. “This represents an important change,” he stressed.
According to experts, some groups of Russian ‘hackers’ have specialized in this type of attacks against infrastructures of great importance to access information and, in addition, to have access to certain networks in the event of a possible conflict.