AI: Friend Or Foe To Critical Infrastructure Threats?
Techstrong.ai, Friday, November 22nd, 2024
FBI Director Christopher Wray called it 'the defining threat of our generation.' Volt Typhoon, identified by national security experts as a China-sponsored group, focused on pre-positioning themselves within U.S. critical infrastructure IT networks to launch cyberattacks in the event of a major crisis or conflict with the U.S.
A few years earlier, a digital intruder increased sodium hydroxide to dangerous levels in the Oldsmar, Fla., water supply in an attempt to poison the local population within 24 to 36 hours. The plan was foiled when an employee of a water treatment plant noticed the rising levels and reported the problem.
Water systems, utilities, the electrical grid, financial systems, railways and transportation - they're all vulnerable to an asymmetrical attack from a nation-state that can't compete with overwhelming U.S. armed forces. 'Critical infrastructure is increasingly becoming a target,' Ayal Yogev, co-founder and CEO at Anjuna Security, said in an interview. 'It has become a battlefield between the U.S. and nation-states. Essentially, it is asymmetrical warfare vs. a large and mighty conventional American military.'