Iran’s aggressive cyber operations multiplied in recent weeks and then again this past week, the US Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) director Christopher Krebs told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday.
Krebs spoke to the Post on the sidelines of Tel Aviv University’s Cyber Week conference.
While Krebs leaves questions to the Pentagon about how successful the US or Iranian cyberattacks were against one another in the unusually public recent cyberwarfare exchange (and the Pentagon is not commenting), he made it clear that the Islamic republic had escalated twice compared to its normal activity.
He said “The roll of my agency is to help the private sector enable risk management efforts.”
To accomplish that goal and encourage “threat information sharing with the private sector,” he noted his agency’s unusual public statement this past weekend warning of Tehran’s increased cyber operations.
Next, he said that there is “enough information from the private sector, plus geopolitical tensions are rising. There has been shipping interference and the shooting down of the drone. We need to make…
