By Kevin Townsend on April 27, 2021
The FBI and DHS have issued a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory on the threat posed by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) via the cyber actor known as APT 29 (aka the Dukes, Cozy Bear, Yttrium and CozyDuke).
This advisory primarily looks at the threats posed by APT 29, the evolution of its methods, and best practices to defend against the actor. It should be read in conjunction with, and as a supplement to, a separate advisory published earlier this month by the NSA, CISA and the FBI. The earlier advisory examined current vulnerabilities used by APT 29, and mitigations that can be employed against that use.
events to rehearse how federal agencies would responds in a real attack. some dealt with vote meddling. others focused on efforts to undermine the elections. as the nightmare scenario unfolds at polling places, the team went over what actions each agency would take and what the legal constraints were on what they could do and i am wondering, does this plan, these 15 pages confirm or perhaps raise more questions about why the obama administration was so quiet about this let? what the plan shows are the extraordinary measures that they put in place to be reprepared for a russian attack. what that, inturn, shows is how successful putin has been in undermining american faith in the electoral process, which was