Russia has emerged as a disrupter, knowing that it has neither the money nor the technology to take the United States on directly. China has become a builder — why threaten to cut undersea cables, as Vladimir Putin’s submarine force does, if you can dominate global communications? official who worked for McMaster as the White House cybersecurity coordinator, said: “Russia is the hurricane. Fortunately, it has since been pieced together, and in the 2020 presidential contest, everyone from Facebook to Twitter to the United States Cyber Command has been pushing back. Botnets that spread ransomware that could be directed at election systems have been taken down, at least briefly.

Source: New York Times October 22, 2020 19:52 UTC