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Oct 17 5 tweets 5 min read
NEW: #Europe seeing "significant increase in the number of #cyberattacks in 2022" per @MoodysInvSvc

38% of the incidents linked to #Russia-#Ukraine BUT Moody's warns "the acceleration is actually broad-based"
#Europe cyberattacks - "The total number of observed #cyberattacks not related to the #Russia|n invasion of #Ukraine in the 1st 9 months of 2022 is already more than double the number we recorded in all of 2021" per @MoodysInvSvc
"Because disclosure requirements for #cyberattacks are still limited, we believe that the actual number of successful cyberattacks is much higher" per @MoodysInvSvc
New @MoodysInvSvc report on #cyberattacks in #Europe warns the "public sector is most vulnerable to cyberattacks...impact is higher in private sector"

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Oct 17
JUST IN: US sanctions network of #alShabaab financial facilitators engaged in weapons procurement & recruitment

@USTreasury notes alShabaab "generates around $100 million per year through multiple funding streams..." ImageImageImageImage
MORE: Those sanctioned include Khalif Adale, identified as #alShabaab's finance leader for collections from NGOs, who reports directly to alShabaab emir Ahmed Diriye
.@USTreasury statement further notes @Rewards4Justice is offering $5 million for info on key #alShabaab leader Hassan Afgooye, who is "considered critical to al-Shabaab’s continuing operations"
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Oct 17
ICYMI: Declassified US intelligence assessment warns #China "steadily progressing toward its goal of becoming a world-class #space leader... by 2030 China probably will achieve worldclass status in all but a few space technology areas"

China's goal is to match/surpass US by 2045
The April 2021 report was declassified last month by @ODNIgov Dir Avril Haines

The redacted version was posted earlier this month
The assessment says US intel has high confidence that #China is keeping #space as a top priority w/"#Beijing
providing sufficient funding & resources to achieve many of the [space] strategy's milestones within the decade"
Read 6 tweets
Oct 12
NEW US National Security Strategy bent on "out-competing #China & constraining #Russia"

"Around the world, the need for American leadership is as great as it has ever been" per @POTUS "We are in the
midst of a strategic competition to shape the future of the international order"
"#China harbors the intention & increasingly the capacity to reshape the int'l order in favor of one that tilts the global playing field to its benefit" per @POTUS

"#Russia’s brutal&unprovoked war on its
neighbor #Ukraine has shattered peace in #Europe & impacted stability"
"Autocrats are working overtime to undermine democracy & export a model of governance marked by repression at home & coercion abroad" per @POTUS in the new US Nat'l Security Strategy
Read 4 tweets
Oct 12
NEW: "We've made good progress" @SecDef Lloyd Austin says following #Ukraine Defense Contact Group mtg in #Brussels

"#Russia's atrocities have further united the nations of goodwill..."
#HIMARS "have changed the dynamic of the war the #Putin started" per @SecDef, saying allies will continue to rush in equipment & supplies to #Ukraine
"We will do even more to train #Ukrainian forces" per @SecDef

He adds contact group nations also working to fire up production of their defense industrial bases to meet ongoing needs
Read 19 tweets
Oct 11
NEW: #Russia's war in #Ukraine & #cyber - "We have learned a tremendous amount" @CYBERCOM_DIRNSA Gen. Paul Nakasone tells @CFR_org

Says #Ukraine has hardened its networks & has been a step ahead of the Russians in #cyberspace
"Having 10 folks on the ground that are tied back to our command & our agency, that's power I think is really helpful" per @CYBERCOM_DIRNSA re US #cyber aid to #Ukraine

Says US "surged to well over 30...we flooded the zone" to help #Kyiv in #cyber
#Ukraine's warnings abt looming #cyber attacks by #Russia on energy, financial sectors - "They have gone after energy, certainly" @CISAJen tells @CFR_org

"We've been working very closely w/the energy sector ... we are not at a place where we should be putting our shields down"
Read 15 tweets
Oct 11
#Russia's nuclear saber rattling just noise, for now, per US

"We've seen no indication-nothing that tells us Mr #Putin has made a decision to use nuclear weapons or weapons of mass destruction at all inside #Ukraine" @WHNSC's John Kirby tells reports
"We've seen no indication that the that the #Russia|n apparatus is moving anything to prepare for that kind of a decision" adds @WHNSC's Kirby
The US assessment echoes comments by #Britain's intel chief, @GCHQ's Sir Jeremy Fleming, earlier to @BBCNews
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