American Labyrinth: Demystifying Adversary Use of Domestic Infrastructure
summary
Explains how the FBI and Department of Justice coordinated with Microsoft and other private-sector partners to identify and disable Chinese actors exploiting a Microsoft vulnerability; covers the legal and operational steps used to remove access to U.S. computers and to reduce adversary anonymity; describes law-enforcement/private-sector collaboration models for tracking and disrupting malicious cyber activity.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:20Evolution of Cyber Attacks
- 4:40How the US Government Looks at Adversary Activity
- 8:00Adversary Use of Domestic Infrastructure
- 10:55Hafnium
- 14:25Identifying the breadth of the vulnerability
- 27:45The FBIs role
- 30:32When to conduct an operation
- 33:13Private sector engagement
- 38:37Microsofts perspective
- 42:34Final Words
- 47:33Outro
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