Bill Gertz
China has conducted aggressive cyberattacks on U.S. critical infrastructures, and the U.S. needs to step up efforts to block the planting of malicious software in control networks, the general slated to be the next commander of Cyber Command told Congress. Army Lt. Gen. Joshua M. Rudd, who is also nominated to be director of the National Security Agency, disclosed new details about cyberattack threats to infrastructure in recent congressional testimony.
Gen. Rudd, currently the deputy commander of the Indo-Pacific Command, said other adversaries also are threatening critical infrastructure, but less than the dangers from communist China. “The United States faces a complex and multilayered cyber threat landscape, but there is no ambiguity about our primary threat: China is the most serious and sophisticated threat we face in cyberspace,” Gen. Rudd told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
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