multiple u.s. critical infrastructure sectors including things like government, energy, finance and manufacturing. over on capitol hill yesterday cyber policymakers says russian has designs in cyberspace well beyond the u.s. listen. very focused on some type of cyber activity designed for perhaps ukraine that spreads more broadly into other countries. we ve also learned that 21 american companies involved with lng production including giants chevron and others have been attacked by cyberhackers two weeks before putin invaded ukraine. told the u.s. government believes this marks the first phase in that russian plan to destabilize the u.s. energy industry. state department officials have been warning of this type of cyberattack against the u.s. since long before putin invaded nearly two weeks ago. they ve deployed it against
colleague used to say that russia was a gas station masquerading as a country. phase 1 kicked off before putin s invasion even began. when 21 u.s. energy companies were targeted including giants chevron and cheniere. russian intelligence launched so-called spear phishing attacks on pharmaceutical company. today on capitol hill lawmakers flagged concerns about russia s infiltration of elder american communication. the technology known as ff 7 which allows phones to roam from one network to another could also allow foreign actors to get into our network and intercept american calls and texts. france s largest bank has put its entire staff on high alert to russian cyberattacks today. they have also taken the unprecedented step of disconnecting their entire russia based team from the company s computer system, they say in order to protect it. bret?