Ex-NSA hacker says a supply chain cyberattack is one of the things that keeps him up at night
Summary
A former Marine who conducted cyber missions for the U.S. military and the National Security Agency told CNBC on Monday the threat of a cyberattack on the U.S. chain supply keeps him awake at night. David Kennedy, also the founder of cybersecurity companies TrustedSec and Binary Defense, told "Power Lunch" that an attack on the U.S. supply chain would disrupt the entire world. The Russian-linked hacker group Nobelium has been attempting to attack parts of the global technology supply chain, according to cybersecurity experts at Microsoft. Successful attacks may lead other adversarial nations to wage a cyberattack against the United States, with aim taken at increasingly vulnerable cloud computing, Kennedy said. Security systems in place by many technology companies werent designed to handle these levels of threats, according to Kennedy.