First Assistant U.S. Attorney Tracy Wilkison announces in 2018 charges against a North Korean national in a range of cyberattacks. The past year has brought a series of new headaches to law enforcement agencies in the form of ransomware, cryptocurrency laundering and debates about legal authorities. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
It’s been a wild year in cybersecurity, one where ransomware jumped from a criminal enterprise to a bonafide national security threat regularly discussed by the President of the United States, software (insecurity) continued to eat the world and a series of damaging supply chain hacks shocked the public and private sectors alike.
At a May 26 event hosted by the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association, three U.S. law enforcement officials reflected on what was, to them, the cybercrime incidents or developments over the past year that will have the biggest impact on the cybersecurity landscape going forward.
Not surprisingly, the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack and its fallout was still fresh on the minds of several officials. Sean Newell, deputy chief for the Counterintelligence and Export Control Section at the Department of Justice, cited it as a rare instance of a long simmering issue br ..
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