Periscope Depth 05/18/2023

Cyber Teams Deploy Abroad To Bolster U.S. Cyber Defenses
Julian Lark

A team from U.S. Cyber Command’s (CYBERCOM’s) Cyber National Mission Task Force (CNMF) recently completed a hunt forward operation in Latvia.

Hunt forward operations are part of CYBERCOM’s 2018 Defend Forward strategy, which calls for the Dept. of Defense to “disrupt malicious cyber activity at its source, including activity that falls below the level of armed conflict.” In this case, the team operated on a network...