On this week’s Cyber Report, sponsored by Fortress Information Security, Justin Sherman, a Wired Magazine contributor and visiting fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative, discusses the latest attack on Ukraine’s infrastructure by the “Sandworm” cyber unit of Russia’s military intelligence agency, the GRU — officially known as Unit 74455 — how defenders are improving their game, the value and perils of disclosing classified information, takeaways from the FBI’s successful operations to clean Russian malware from global networks, factors shaping Moscow’s approach to global cyber operations, and the German-US designation of Kaspersky as a national cyber threat; and Fortress Co-Founder and Executive Chairman Peter Kassabov discusses growth plans for his company in the wake of Goldman Sachs’ recent $125 million investment in the threat intelligence firm with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
