Russian cyber hackers are denying attempts on targeting organizations involved in coronavirus vaccine development; Former CIA station chief Dan Hoffman weighs in on ‘Fox and Friends.’
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
Griff, welcome back
Griff Welcome back
Russia denying allegations that
they are hacking, labs and
pharmaceutical companies around
the globe.
Cyber senator, backed by the NSA
claims, a russian group targeted
various organizations involved
in Covid 19 vaccine development
in Canada,
the United States and the United
Kingdom
highly likely the intention of
stealing information
here to react. Fox news,
contributor and former CIA
station Chief who served in
Moscow Dan Hoffman
Dan Good Morning to you
thanks for joining us
thanks
good morning
Griff. I want to ask you. I think
what everyone wants to know is
how successful were these
russian hacking groups,
we have heard them called cozy
bear and that they may have been
in twenty. Sixteen hacking, the Dnc
successfully.
How successful were they in hack,
this vaccine research?
Well, apparently, they have
not been extremely successful
because we detected that threat
and thats. What is so important
about the announcement this
week?
It was mental first and
foremost to name and shame.
Russia
damage their reputation while
the world is trying to find a
vaccine for Covid 19,
Russia is conducting espionage
again, no surprise there.
Vladimir Putin was a KGB officer
and ran Russias ruthless
internal security police, the
Sfb.
This is also a warning. You
know to Russia that we can
counter attack, as we did,
allegedly in twenty eighteen during the
midterms, when we launched our
own cyber attack against
Russias Internet Research
agency and its also public
service announcement,
particularly to our scientific
community, to be on alert that
russian intelligence is using
this cozy bear.
They have done it since way back
in twenty sixteen when they targeted the
State Department and the White
House as well as, as you point
out, the Dnc during the
elections
Dan, I want to shift you from
Russia to China.
We also had Secretary Pompeo
with pretty strong words about
China, paying a price
heres what he said earlier this
week.
I think the world will make
them pay a price
im, confident that the world
will look at China differently
and engage them on fundamentally
different terms than they did
before this catastrophic
disaster
Griff your thoughts.
I think the United States
clearly had already started to
swivel our foreign policy into
the Trump administration
countering more effectively and
defending ourselves from China.
I think that the coronavirus,
chinas willful attempt willful
effort to conceal the outbreak
and the severity of the pandemic.
I think it was a tipping point
for much of the rest of the
world.
China is militarizing, the south,
China, sea, stealing intellectual
property,
even in the state of Texas. They
bought subsidiary, broke wind
farm to conduct, espionage
against air force, base
their ambition, risk as 21st
century cold war and were
leading the way right now in
countering and deterring and
defending ourselves with our
allies from China,
Griff Dan. Just in the seconds
we have left, you mentioned
China, militarizing, the South,
China Sea.
How big of a threat is that,
right now
China set sites on South
China Sea
threatened Philippines in
Vietnam.
What the United States has done
is used: u DOT S, military and
working with our allies, to make
it clear that China does not
exercise sovereignty over that
resource, rich part of the
geographic space
and its going, I think,
continue to be an area of
contention
Griff all right.
We will continue to follow it
Dan Hoffman. Thank you for.
Transcript generated on 2020-07-21.