Reaction to penalties from president obama for allegedly meddling in the u. S. President ial election. Russia has already shut down a school in moscow used by Many American children, and its announcing other plans today for further action. It comes after the Obama Administration shuttered two russian compounds, imposed new sanctions and expelled dozens of diplomats and abcs janai norman has the latest from washington. Good morning, janai. Reporter good morning. President obama says all americans should be alarmed by russian interference in the election and his administration is offering new details into how russia pulled off that cyberattack, a campaign u. S. Officials are calling grizzly steppe. President obama sending a powerful message to punish russia striking back against the cyberattacks aimed at influencing the election. The sanctions today were aggressive and they were bold and theyre designed to send a message to russia that this type of behavior is unacceptable. Reporter the
President obama for allegedly meddling in the u. S. Election. Russia shut down a school in moscow used by Many American children and announcing many other plans and comes after the Obama Administration imposed sanctions and expelled dozens of diplomats and janai norman has the latest from washington. Good morning. Reporter good morning. President obama says all americans should be alarmed by russian interference in the election and his administration is offering new details into how russia pulled off that cyberattack, a campaign u. S. Officials are calling grizzly steppe. President obama sending a powerful message to punish russia striking back against the cyberattacks aimed at influencing the election. The sanctions were aggressive and bold and theyre designed to send a message to russia that this is unacceptable. Reporter taking executive action to expel 35 intelligence operatives giving them and their families 72 hours to get out and shutting down two russian compounds used for gath
System or do a distributed Service Attack against somebodys system and knock it offline. Think about that. If somebody went after one of the states and distributed the service against one of those databases online. It knocks it off in the middle of the election. The next thing well talk about is poison updates at the manufacturer level. I think we already covered that. Okay. Spreading malware to state election systems. Sure. A lot of these methods are interchangeable. You can use them for local pc. But it comes down to, for me, if i were the adversary coming in, i would poison the update. I would start at the manufacturer level, also gain access to the state server, i would get access to the database, infiltrate, and the right packet size, and have some type of malicious payload that could bridge that air gap and have full functionality. I would also add a ransomware feature. Its something nobody is really talking about whether its the Voter Registration data or the final tabulation, t
System or do a distributed Service Attack against somebodys system and knock it offline. Think about that. If somebody went after one of the states and distributed the service against one of those databases online. It knocks it off in the middle of the election. The next thing well talk about is poison updates at the manufacturer level. I think we already covered that. Okay. Spreading malware to state election systems. Sure. A lot of these methods are interchangeable. You can use them for local pc. But it comes down to, for me, if i were the adversary coming in, i would poison the update. I would start at the manufacturer level, also gain access to the state server, i would get access to the database, infiltrate, and the right packet size, and have some type of malicious payload that could bridge that air gap and have full functionality. I would also add a ransomware feature. Its something nobody is really talking about whether its the Voter Registration data or the final tabulation, t
System or do a distributed Service Attack against somebodys system and knock it offline. Think about that. If somebody went after one of the states and distributed the service against one of those databases online. It knocks it off in the middle of the election. The next thing well talk about is poison updates at the manufacturer level. I think we already covered that. Okay. Spreading malware to state election systems. Sure. A lot of these methods are interchangeable. You can use them for local pc. But it comes down to, for me, if i were the adversary coming in, i would poison the update. I would start at the manufacturer level, also gain access to the state server, i would get access to the database, infiltrate, and the right packet size, and have some type of malicious payload that could bridge that air gap and have full functionality. I would also add a ransomware feature. Its something nobody is really talking about whether its the Voter Registration data or the final tabulation, t