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What sort of attacks should U.S. businesses expect?

Kanry said we don't need to look back very far to see an example of the potential havoc state-sponsored cyberattacks can inflict: The Colonial Pipeline attack.

While individual companies may be at an increased risk of attack, Parnes warned that many companies will become collateral damage in attacks against infrastructure.

"There is only so much you can do now to prevent a cyberattack in the immediate future, particularly if you are targeted by Russia or a state-sponsored attacker," Parnes said.

"Nation-state attackers usually can craft mutated attacks to render threat intelligence unhelpful, use living off the land techniques to bypass endpoint security and focus on disruption rather than ransoming data which can in many cases be easier to achieve," Das said.

What about attacks that are mutated in order to avoid threat intelligence? Das said that organizations need to use AI-based detection tools that can pick up on suspicious activity as well as typical IOCs.

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