Global competition in the Arctic is heating up, and FP is hosting a briefing to discuss our latest research on this vital issue on January 12 at 11 am ET.
Please join us as we discuss the current state of competition for Arctic resources. Panelists include James P. DeHart, coordinator for the Arctic region with the U.S. State Department, and Janne Hirvonen, team leader for regional and economic cooperation with the Consulate General of Finland in St. Petersburg.
All during 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic swept around the world, another novel virus with devastating long-term effects spread unnoticed worldwide. Sometime in late 2019 or early 2020, at least one group of advanced hackers inserted malware into network software supplied by SolarWinds, a maker of information technology infrastructure software based in Austin, Texas. The decision to target SolarWinds looks strategic given the company’s vast U.S. and global clientele in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Publicly exposed in December 2020, the infectious malware—dubbed Sunburst by the cybersecurity firm FireEye and Solorigate by Microsoft—may turn out to be the most audacious cyberespionage campaign in history. For months, attackers stealthily infiltrated governments and businesses via a Trojan horse-style update to SolarWinds’ Orion cybersecurity management software. Like the coronavirus, Sunburst and another recently discovered piece of malware reveal the downside of global connectivity and the failure of global cooperation to deal with contagion.
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