The threat of Russian cyberwar

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🗓️ 21 April 2022

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Russia is ramping up attacks on Ukraine’s digital infrastructure. The US could be next. This episode of Today Explained was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained and Recode Daily by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Today Explained. Russia isn't happy with the United States right now.
0:06.4	Most recently, it sent a formal warning to the Biden administration, stop sending advanced
0:12.4	weapons to Ukraine or risk, quote, unpredictable consequences.
0:18.4	Hard to know what Putin means by that, but one thing we do know is Russia has been ramping
0:23.4	up cyber warfare in Ukraine.
0:25.8	A top Ukrainian cyber security official has confirmed to NBC News that Ukraine is once
0:30.4	again under cyber attack, and among the reported victims are banks and government websites.
0:35.3	And as Putin's frustration grows, as does the threat of cyber warfare.
0:40.4	Everybody's vulnerable, cyber activities know no sovereign boundaries, and so the United
0:45.0	States is surely going to be a potential torrent.
0:49.2	The threat of cyber warfare from Russia and how the United States isn't really ready
0:54.0	ahead on Today Explained.
0:58.2	Today Explained, I'm Sean Romsferum, and this is Glenn.
1:09.9	I'm Glenn Gerstell, I'm the former General Council of the National Security Agency
1:17.6	having served there from 2015 to 2020, but now he's just a regular civilian.
1:22.8	And I'm currently a senior advisor at a Washington DC think tank, the Center for Strategic
1:27.5	and International Studies.
1:28.9	Glenn still thinks a lot about national security.
1:31.5	So he seemed like the right kind of guy to ask about cyber security.
1:34.8	We're seeing right now very significant cyber attacks in Ukraine, including one that was
1:39.5	just recently thwarted just days ago, which would have been a successful attack on the
1:44.5	electric grid in Kiev.
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