Israel Defense Forces stopped hackers from hitting US power plants - Unit 8200 official

Cyber warfare and crime are all too real! Clandestine activities well hidden from public view! You wonder what else is going on.

The U.S. - Israel alliance is very special!

"The deputy chief of IDF Unit 8200, “Col. U.,” on Wednesday [6/29/2022] said that his intelligence agency warned the United States of attempts to hack the country's power plants in time to thwart the cyberattack. ...

Although this was not the first time these warnings to the US have been made public, it was the first time a Unit 8200 official had discussed sensitive cyber intelligence in public.

The most well-known example was Israel’s 2017 warning to the US about Russia’s Kaspersky antivirus software being used as a way to backdoor spy on them or plant malware. ..."

IDF stopped hackers from hitting US power plants - Unit 8200 official - Israel News - The Jerusalem Post This is the first time a current Unit 8200 official, deputy chief of IDF Unit 8200, “Col. U.,” discussed such sensitive cyber intelligence sharing in public.

The officers face is blurred (not by me) even though he speaks at a conference at the Tel Aviv University