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2020-04-06 14:00
Dan Patterson speaks with cybersecurity expert Robert Lee about how Russia, Iran, China, and North Korea pose a threat to US industrial infrastructures.
Robert Lee: The [countries] we've seen over the years would be Russia, Iran, China, North Korea-the normal players.
We've seen a team called Xenotime, which others have attributed to the Russian state as well.
In the US electric infrastructure, and in the infrastructure we've seen around energy in manufacturing in North America, we've seen a mixture of intellectual property theft from manufacturing companies.
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