US general says attacks by foreign hackers are 'clarion call'


Nakasone said both the SolarWinds and Microsoft hacks revealed 'a scope, a scale, a level of sophistication that we hadn’t seen previously'. — AP

WASHINGTON: The US Cyber Command conducted more than two dozen operations aimed at thwarting interference in last November’s presidential election, the general who leads the Pentagon’s cyber force said on March 25.

Gen. Paul Nakasone did not describe the nature of the operations in testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee but said they were designed “to get ahead of foreign threats before they interfered with or influenced our elections in 2020”.

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