Krishnamoorthi Warns Russian Cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover Could Foreshadow Future Threats to U.S. Government and Economy

WASHINGTON - Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence's National Intelligence Enterprise Subcommittee (HPSCI-NIE), issued the following statement after reports linked Russian hackers to a 2025 cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover that forced the company to suspend production for five weeks and contributed to an estimated $2.5 billion economic hit to the United Kingdom.

"The Russian cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover is exactly the kind of threat we should be preparing for," said Congressman Krishnamoorthi. "Yesterday, I co-led a bipartisan Intelligence Subcommittee roundtable on emerging gray-zone threats, where we discussed these kinds of foreign cyber operations. If Russian hackers can inflict billions of dollars in economic damage on a close ally, we should assume they're looking for ways to target American companies, government networks, and critical infrastructure. We need stronger cyber defenses and a strategy to stop these attacks before they succeed."

The report comes one day after a bipartisan HPSCI-NIE Subcommittee roundtable convened by Krishnamoorthi on emerging gray-zone threats to the homeland. During the discussion, expert witnesses pointed to Ukraine's response to Russian cyber operations as an example of how governments and private-sector partners can work together to expose and counter malicious activity before it succeeds.