U.S. Justice Department: Al Qaeda Preparing To Lauch Cyber Warfare Against The U.S.

Al Qaeda Targeting U.S. Infrastructure for Digital 9/11 -- Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon

Terrorists, nation states, criminal groups have capability of causing significant damage

ASPEN, Colo.—Al Qaeda, nation states, and criminals are preparing for major cyber attacks against U.S. infrastructure that could be comparable to the devastating September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, a senior Justice Department official said on Thursday.

“We’re in a pre-9/11 moment, in some respects, with cyber,” said John Carlin, assistant attorney general for national security in the Justice Department.

Carlin also said during remarks at a security conference that China’s government dared the Obama administration to provide court-level evidence of Chinese military hacking against the United States.

The dare resulted in the May 1 indictment of five members of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) hacking group known as Unit 63198, he said.

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My Comment: This report on Al Qaeda planning cyber warfare against the U.S. is coming from the U.S. Justice Department .... so much for the White House line from two years back that Al Qaeda was on the run.