“For every FBI agent, there are 50 Chinese hackers”

“For every FBI agent, there are 50 Chinese hackers.” That’s what the FBI director said Christopher Wray before the US Congressional Committee. Therefore need this FBI more money – much more money to counter the Chinese hacking army and other cyber threats. Wray made a rant about why it was imperative that budgetary resources be added to the FBI’s cyber expertise. Specifically, it is about an increase $63 million for 192 more cyber jobs.

“Largest hacking program of all nations”

“The scale of the Chinese cyber threat is unprecedented. They have a bigger hacking program than any other major nation combined and have stolen more of our personal and corporate information than any other nation, big or small, combined.” Report by The Register before the congressional committee.

One is also there, “over a hundred different ransomware variants’, in which one can partly assume that national actors are involved North Korea or Iran. Attacks have been observed targeting critical infrastructure and services that people rely on in their daily lives. “I’m talking about places like hospitals, schools, 911 call centers.”

In the year 2021 After a cyber attack, for example, the operation of one of the largest petrol pipelines in Colonial Pipelines in the USA be temporarily discontinued, to give an example.