New National Counterintelligence Strategy Outlines Biggest Threats To The US

Director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center William Evanina speaks during the Reuters Cybersecurity Summit in Washington, Oct. 31, 2017.

Daily Mail: Hacktivists and anti-secrecy groups like Anonymous and WikiLeaks 'pose as big a threat to the US as traditional espionage from ISIS, Al-Qaeda and Hezbollah', government report reveals

  * The National Counterintelligence Strategy outlines biggest threats to the US
  * Previous editions of the report singled out Russia, China, Iran and North Korea
  * This year's report lists ideologically motivated entities such as hacktivists
  * Also includes Cuba, Hezbollah, ISIS and Al-Qaeda in its list of threats

The US government has stated in a new report that hacktivism is a threat to national security as significant as ISIS, Al-Qaeda and Hezbollah.

The National Counterintelligence Strategy singled out anti-secrecy organisations —such as WikiLeaks — independent hackers and Islamic extremists as specific threats.

Previous editions of the report focused on Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, along with transnational crime groups, as the central spying threats to the United States.

The new strategy report also adds Cuba to its list of groups able to undertake intelligence operations against the country.

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