Former NSA top hacker names the filthy four of nation-state hacking
Rob Joyce, the former head of the NSA’s Tailored Access Operations hacking team, has spilled the beans on which nations are getting up to mischief online.
Joyce gave one of the first talks at the DEF CON hacking conference in Las Vegas and interest was intense - the lines to get in stretched around the hall. Joyce congratulated the crowd on their work in hacking systems to make them safer but warned tougher times were to come.
Nation state hacking is nothing new, but Joyce warned that the practice is increasingly being weaponized so as to cause maximum disruption. Everyone is going to have to be a lot more careful in the future to avoid chaos, he said. According to Joyce there are four primary actors when it comes to states hacking states: Russia, China, Iran and North Korea. Notably missing from the list was the US, but let's face it, he wasn't going to go into detail about that.
