Hi and welcome to malicious life in collaboration with cyberism. I'm Ran Leffin.

Just a few days ago news broke of one of the biggest and most significant cyber security incidents in recent history. A breach into several federal organizations networks, at least one security

firm, Fire Eye, and potentially up to 18,000 businesses in the U.S, including many Fortune 500 companies.

The attack is currently informally attributed to APT 29, aka Cozy Bear, a Russian state-sponsored hacking team.

This is obviously big news and so we decided to invite Israel Barak, Cyberizans,

CISO, to discuss this incident in detail. Some of you might remember Israel from previous

episodes of malicious life including our last live event from a few months ago.

For those who don't let me introduce you properly.

Israel Barak, Cyber reasons Cisso, is a cyber defense and warfare expert

with extensive background working for the government where he established

and operated various cyber warfare teams. Israel spent years training, guiding and

professionally mentoring new personnel, providing in-depth cyber expertise as it relates to

cyber warfare, cyber security, and threat actors, tactics and procedures. Israel is also a regular speaker at leading cybersecurity industry conferences and events.

Israel, thank you very much for

start to join us in such a short notice.

Thank you, Ron.

So for starters, take us through the events chronologically

as they unfolded. It started with fire rye, right?

It did, but actually you know the timeline actually started even before then.

I think when you look at the events chronologically as they

unfolded today we know that the operational preparation on the attacker's

side and specifically setting up some of the command and control infrastructure began as at least as early as August 6, 2019,

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