Sentence examples for hostile actor from inspiring English sources

More than anything, the details contained in the indictment make clear how vulnerable Facebook still is to a hostile actor.

Imagine for a moment that a hostile actor could crash the harvest of an island state by quietly introducing a gene drive or could insert a gene drive into a biting insect population to deliver toxins.

Nato has clearly been caught napping by the Russian president's well prepared advances in Ukraine since February and is scrambling to come up with strategies for a new era in which Russia has gone from being a "strategic partner" of the alliance to a hostile actor perfecting what the alliance terms "hybrid warfare".

Anyone — or any government or hostile actor with a divisive agenda to push.

Those attacks deny access to computers or websites downed by the hostile actor and are often considered the trademark of hackers unaffiliated with national agencies.

M. Lee explained those aren't as threatening to North American critical infrastructure assets, because a hostile actor would only act on such an attack if there were a hot geopolitical conflict.

"It is possible that hostile actors gained access," he said.

Afghanistan's neighbors anticipate a security vacuum that hostile actors are only too eager to exploit.

The fear: that hostile actors are planting destructive software in crucial U.S. systems that could be activated at will.

Weber noted that the biodefense community has been concerned about the potential use of new gene-editing technologies by hostile actors.

In the wake of the 2016 presidential election, Americans know all too well that hostile actors abroad are focused on spreading disinformation and undermining confidence in our institutions.