Fancy phrases aside, this means that FBI does cyber attacks. Well most of the people would find it quite normal. Which intelligence agency doesn't? Well, we all knew it. Head of FBI only declared it. So be a good guy else...
What was the saying? Umm... "The best defense is a good offense"? Or something like that? And what did legendary Sun Tzu say about it? Here it comes: "Attack is the secret of defense; defense is the planning of an attack." (Maybe Christopher Wray just finished the book "The Art of War". Who knows? =)) )
“'Offense is a critical part of our overall effort to push back against cyber adversaries,' Wray said during a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing in which he was testifying."
"Although Wray did not provide specifics into the type of cyber offensive operations the agency has conducted, he did say that the department engages in other types of activities, including conducting counterintelligence operations, targeting adversaries’ infrastructure, disrupting malicious cryptocurrency schemes, and indicting cyber criminals."
"Other U.S. agencies have also said that they’ve engaged in cyber offensive operations against nation-state threat actors.
In June, Gen. Paul Nakasone, the head of U.S. Cyber Command, publicly confirmed for the first time that the U.S. had helped Ukraine on the offensive side."
"However, he warned that deterring nation-state threat actors from continuing to engage in illegal cyber activity is much more difficult than disrupting their operations.
'We’re not going to deter the Chinese or the Russians from spying, but we can make it hellishly difficult for them to do it,' Wray said. "
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