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Things You Need to Know about Current Global and National Threats to Your Personal Security
UPDATED: May 7, 2025
THREAT LEVEL:
ACTIVE ONGOING CYBER WAR
China - Russia - Iran - North Korea
SECTIONS:
Cyber Warfare
The First Line of Attack in Conflict Between Nations
Of all the topics we cover here on Threat Board .info, Cyber Warfare is the most complex of them all. An all-out Cyber War can be, next to nuclear, the most devastating. Hacking attacks during a Cold War focus on intelligence gathering and probing and testing for vulnerabilities, then quietly implanting back-door software into critical infrastructure control systems to be used later, when needed.
On this page we will try to cover enough areas to give you a general overview of current threats and trends.
THE MOST SERIOUS THREAT WE FACE IS...
The Power Grid being hacked/disabled if at war.
“If the grid went down for a long enough time…
90 percent of the U.S. population would die from starvation, lack of water, and social disruption. We are talking about total devastation.”
-- Ambassador Henry Cooper, Former Director of U.S. Strategic Defense
US GOV: CISA - Cybersecurity Alerts (about) - A little technical
see also: Canada, U.K, Australia
Introduction
Introduction
Interview with Keith Alexander,
former commander of U.S. Cyber Command,
retired 4-star general, former director
of the National Security Agency.
Jan 2025 | 9 min | Fox Business
Cold War, Political Warfare, Hybrid Warfare generally mean the same thing, but basically refer to conflict between nations primarily through non-direct military 'shooting' conflict using a mixture of tactics involving economics, political, electoral interference, diplomatic, propaganda, fake news, espionage, cyberwarfare, legal warfare, and/or proxy wars waged by surrogates, sub-contractors, and allies.
Spying, Secrets Theft, and Hacking against Corporate, Military, Government, Media, Industry, Infrastructure, and Academia
Threats, Coercion against Individuals who Speak Out Against the Enemy
Political and Election Interference
Organized Crime, Money Laundering, and Drug Trafficking
Propaganda and Mis-information
FEATURED
"The Defining Threat of Our Generation"
FBI Director Christopher Wray explains
China's threat to U.S. Cyber Security
Jan 31, 2024 | 9 min | C-SPAN
FEATURED
Cyber Wars
Oct 2022 | 4 min | Sharyl Attkisson
The Devastating Power of Hacking
June 2024 | 18 min | Cybernews
[M.A.D. theory]
Are Hackers the Biggest Threat to America’s Critical Infrastructure?
April 2024 | 22 min | Vice News
How a Cyber Attack Crippled the Colonial Pipeline & Vulnerabilities in Power Grid Security
May 2021 | 7 min | CNET
'Darkside' Russian Hacking Group
Real-Time Cyber World Monitoring
Real-Time Cyber World Monitoring
TERMS: Computer Virus, Malware, Botnet, DDoS (Denial of Service), SPAM.
Internet Outage Reports & Monitoring REAL-TIME
DownDetector.com - user reporting system
ThousandEyes Global Map - CISCO Global Monitoring
Global Website Outage Map by Pingdom
Cloudflare Radar - Map of Global Outages (techie heaven)
Maps of Online Attacks REAL-TIME
Fortinet Threat Map (cool)
Kaspersky Cyber Attack Map (cool) - it's the globe on the right
Digital Attack Map (Google & Arbor Networks)
RadWare Live Threat Map (cool)
Cyber News
Cyber News
THE LATEST NEWS
THE LATEST NEWS
China-Linked Hackers Breach U.S. Internet Providers in New ‘Salt Typhoon’ Cyberattack
"and obtained information from systems that the federal government uses for court-authorized wiretapping." Sept 26, 2024 | Wall St Journal
CHINA
FBI is Offering Millions of Dollars to Find Chinese Hacking Suspects
March 6, 2025 | 24 min | China in Focus - NTD
NORTH KOREA
How North Korea Hackers Stole $1.5 Billion in Crypto Currency
March 11, 2025 | 6 min | BBC News
NORTH KOREA
North Korean Hackers Just Stole $1.5 Billion
Feb 25, 2025 | 6 min | SeyTonic
CHINA
China Hacks US Treasury Department in 'Major Breach': Report
Dec 31, 2024 | 8 min | Fox Business
CHINA
Military Expert Sounds Alarm:
China will use Cyber Warfare to 'break the will' of American People
Dec 19, 2024 | 6 min | Fox Business
CHINA
U.S. Senators Briefed on Chinese Hacking of U.S. Telecom Companies
Dec 5, 2024 | 10 min | Fox Business
CHINA
Chinese Hackers have Infiltrated at least 8 U.S. Telecom Companies, White House says
Dec 4, 2024 | 4 min | PBS News Hour
CHINA
Officials call China's Cyberattack 'worst telecom hack' in US History
Nov 2024 | 6 min | CNN
CHINA
China-backed Hackers accessed Major U.S. Internet Providers, report says
Aug 2024 | 5 min | CBS News
RECENT NEWS
RECENT NEWS
RUSSIA
Russians team up with young, English-speaking Local Hackers for Cyberattacks
April 2024 | 13 min | CBS 60 Minutes
IRAN
Iranian-backed Hackers claim responsibility for Cyberattack on a Pennsylvania Water System
Nov 2023 | 2 min | ABC News
CHINA
Major Cyberattack Hits Government Agencies, Institutions
June 2023 | 3 min | CBS News
Cyber Armies
Cyber Armies
THREAT NAMING SYSTEM: Commonly Accepted Threat Actor Naming System by Microsoft
NATION-STATES - AXIS: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea
NATION-STATES - ALLIES: the U.S., the U.K., Israel, NATO
List of National Cyber Defense Command Centers around the World.
CIVILIAN: Rogue Hackers, Hacking Communities, Criminal Gangs, Hacktivists
In this section, we will focus on major nation-state cyber armies but also touch on a few civilian ones too. Most nation-states focus on defensive cyber activities. Civilians, larger nation-states, and highly dedicated smaller states also develop offensive capabilities.
Types of Hackers and Hacking
14 min
How Governments use Hacking for Power
July 2024 | 11 min | Cybernews
Top 7 Most Elite Nation-State Hackers
Oct 2020 | 19 min | Jack Rhysider
China
China
China is considered to have the largest cyber hacking army in the world, outweighing all other cyber armies put together.
FBI Director Christopher Wray on the Threat of China's Cyber Program
Jan 2025 | 1 min | CBS 60 Minutes
See Full Interview
'MASS HAVOC': Expert Warns of Threat from China's 'Cyber Bombs'
Feb 2024 | 4 min | Fox Business
Russia
Russia
The Russian Government has its own cyber army, but often sub-contracts with others to provide them with a level of deniability.
Russia also provides a safe-haven for international cyber criminal gangs to operate within Russia, so long as they attack Western democratic nations and their allies and do not attack Russia or their allies.
GOOD OVERVIEW & HISTORY
Russian Cyber-Aggression:
Cyber War Against the West
April 2023 | 25 min | Warfronts
Former NSA Director on Cybersecurity Risks from Russia
April 2022 | 6 min | Fox Business
Russia Provides Safe-Haven for Criminal Cyber Gangs who Target The West
April 2023 | 46 min | ABC AU (Australia)
North Korea
North Korea
NEW
North Korean Hackers Just Stole $1.5 Billion
Feb 2025 | 6 min | SeyTonic
FEATURED
How North Korea Conducts Cyber Operations
Sept 2022 | 13 min | Cyberspacial
NEW
How North Korea Makes Elite Hackers
Feb 2025 | 26 min | Cybernews
Iran
Iran
Iran Unleashes VICIOUS New Cyber Weapon Against Israel
Dec 2024 | 15 min | TBN Israel
Iranian-backed Hackers claim responsibility for Cyberattack on a Pennsylvania Water System
Nov 2023 | 2 min | ABC News
IRAN & ALBANIA, A Growing Cyber Conflict?
Albania is in Europe, next to Greece (Wikipedia)
Oct 2022 | 14 min | James Ker-Lindsay
In July and September 2022, Iran launched a series of highly damaging cyber attacks against Albania.
Why the U.S. Is Vulnerable to an Iranian Cyberattack
Feb 2020 | 5 min | Wall St Journal
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