31 Mar 2022

Tech: US eye on Russian cyber firm, teen hackers arrested

From Nine To Noon, 11:06 am on 31 March 2022

Cybersecurity expert Tony Grasso joins Kathryn to look at why Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab has been added to the national security threat list by the FCC.

He'll also talk about a Chinese threat actor known as Scarab that has been associated with a campaign against Ukraine, the seven teens arrested in the UK as part of cyber-crime gang Lapsus$ and US charges laid against Russian government employees over their hacks of critical energy infrastructure. 

Cyber Crime, reflection in spectacles of virus hacking a computer, close up of face (Photo by Andrew Brookes / Cultura Creative / Cultura Creative via AFP)

Photo: Andrew Brookes, AB Still Ltd, www.andrewbrookes.co.uk