Arthel Neville welcomes former U.S. Defense Intelligence Officer Rebekah Koffler to discuss the massive global cyberattack that has impacted several federal agencies.

FBI Director Christopher Wray issued an ominous warning to Congress on Jan. 31 about China’s plan to "wreak havoc" on U.S. critical infrastructure. To drive the point home, Wray revealed that Chinese cyber hackers outnumber American information operations personnel by 50 to 1.

As a former Defense Intelligence Agency officer specializing in foreign cyber warfare doctrines and operations, I participated in wargames simulating a cyber conflict between the United States and its top adversaries. Congress and my fellow Americans must know that China is not the only U.S. foe that’s building a cyber weapons arsenal with the intent of targeting our country.

Here’s a list of top cyber state actors that pose the highest threat to the U.S. homeland, according to Intelligence Community estimates.

RUSSIA IS TARGETING THE US HOMELAND WITH ITS STRATEGY OF CYBER ARMAGEDDON

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures during his annual live call-in show in Moscow, June 30, 2021.(Sergei Savostyanov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russia has the most sophisticated and destructive arsenal of cyber weapons of any foreign nation. Moscow’s war-fighting doctrine envisions cyberspace as a theater of military operations, akin to land, sea, air and, recently, space. Russia’s war planners view cyber as a strategic non-kinetic tool that is comparable to nuclear weapons because it can cripple the adversary’s military, economy and vital support structures such as hospitals. Cyber, rationalize the Russians, can achieve the same results as WMD, but without producing a nuclear mushroom cloud that would kill millions of people and devastate the land.

The Russians developed cyber weapons as an asymmetric capability to offset our superiority in conventional arms. With cyber, Russia believes it can have an upper hand, in the event of a direct conflict with the U.S., for example, for control over Ukraine, which Russia considers part of its strategic security perimeter.

For more than a quarter of a century, Russia has studied our vulnerabilities, mapped out access to our critical infrastructure, and practiced conducting cyber intrusions into our networks and computer systems. Vladimir Putin’s top cyber strategist, Igor Dylevsky, once stated that by launching "computer attacks on the critical infrastructure targets that are vital for the functioning of a society, it is possible to ‘heat up’ the situation in any country, all the way up to the point of social unrest."

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