BB2G — Born Between 2 Generals
BB2GCyber Defense Briefing
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Cyber Command · 50 states + D.C. · Updated Nov. 10, 2026

Find the flaw first. Heal before harm.

Americans filed 1,008,597 cybercrime complaints with the FBI in 2025 and reported $20.9 billion in losses. Attackers have reached water plants, hospitals, utilities, airports and election offices in nearly every state. This briefing maps the hot spots and shows how BB2G code scans itself for weaknesses, quarantines what it finds and repairs itself before anyone is hurt.

Born Between 2 Generals, LLC · Cyber Command
1,008,597Cybercrime complaints filed with the FBI in 2025
$20.9BReported losses in 2025, the highest on record
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1,756Confirmed ransomware attacks on U.S. organizations, 2018 – mid-2022
Threat map · FBI IC3 2025

Where the attacks are landing

States are shaded by FBI cybercrime complaints per 100,000 residents. Each glow is a documented attack on a hospital, utility, government office, school or election system; red marks critical infrastructure and election systems, and blinking marks the last 10 weeks.

Hot spotCritical infrastructure or election systemPriority regionFBI IC3 2025 · Census 2025 · Comparitech · sourced incident record
Water is in the crosshairsHackers reached water and wastewater systems in Aliquippa, Pa., Muleshoe, Texas, Tipton, Ind., Arkansas City, Kan., Childersburg, Ala., and Rapid City, S.D. Iran- and Russia-linked groups were behind four of them.
Hospitals go darkRansomware forced ambulance diversions or paper charts at Kettering Health, Ascension, Ardent, Prospect Medical and AnMed, among others.
The priority regionNebraska, Iowa, South Dakota, Kansas and Wyoming residents lost $392 million to cybercrime in 2025; Muscatine, Arkansas City and Rapid City utilities were hit.
Latest · Sept. – Nov. 2026

What hit this fall

Recent attacks and national advisories, newest first. Red cards hit critical infrastructure or election systems.

Safe code · self-scan · self-heal

Code that hunts its own weaknesses and repairs itself

Most breaches start with a known flaw nobody patched or a new one nobody saw. BB2G systems scan themselves on every build and every day, contain anything that behaves wrong, and restore a verified good state in seconds.

  1. ScanEvery build: software bill of materials, dependency and secret scans. Every day: PATCH ROLL checks the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.
  2. DetectZero-day behavior sandbox runs unverified packages in short-lived memory containers and kills them on a kernel read or reverse shell.
  3. ContainA suspect port or service moves to a quarantine network; normal traffic reroutes around it.
  4. Repairresilience-daemon-v2 restarts a failed service within 3 seconds and rebuilds altered files from a hash-verified, write-once copy.
  5. VerifyHashes, tests and a two-key approval confirm the repair before the service rejoins.
  6. SealA signed receipt goes to an append-only ledger, and the finding becomes a new scan rule.
Every repair feeds the next scan. Anything it can't verify fails closed and pages a person.
Safe-coding rules built in

Secure by design

Built to CISA Secure by Design and the NIST Secure Software Development Framework.

Signed everything

Signed commits, signed builds and a software bill of materials for every release.

No secrets in code

Keys live in vaults. Leaked tokens found in public code or breach dumps are revoked automatically.

Gates before merge

Static analysis, dependency checks and tests must pass before code can merge.

Responsible disclosure

A new flaw found in someone else's product goes to the vendor and CISA through coordinated disclosure.

Blast-radius rehearsal

Infrastructure changes run in a throwaway copy first to show exactly what they would touch.

Cyber command · Operation Strongroom

Confirm in milliseconds, contain in seconds, decide with two keys

The command desk fuses network, device and open-source signals, then runs a fixed four-phase response. People make the final call; the system buys them time.

Confirm

Signals are scored against each site's normal baseline; a high composite score escalates in under 50 milliseconds.

Quarantine

Compromised ports drop into a dead-end network while suspicious connections are routed to a decoy for evidence.

Mirror

Fresh 3-2-1 copies of critical state are written to separate media and an encrypted off-site link.

Lock

Administrative changes freeze until two hardware keys approve the reset.

Trace

TRACK-BACK documents the intrusion path for law enforcement. BB2G traces; it never hacks back.

Report

A sealed incident packet with timeline and evidence goes to the owner, CISA and insurers.

Standing defenses

PICKET · STAND-TO

Continuous watch of public signals, certificates, leaked credentials and exposed services.

PATCH ROLL

Known exploited vulnerabilities patched on CISA's deadline, with proof for each system.

LATCHKEY

FIDO2 hardware keys for every privileged account; phishing can't steal them.

GATEHOUSE

Ten-point vetting for every vendor before it touches a network.

CIS-AutoShield

CIS benchmark hardening applied and re-checked automatically.

OT isolation

Water, power and building controls separated from office networks and the internet.

Trace back, never hack backEvery response stays defensive and lawful. Evidence is preserved for the people with authority to act on it.
Why defenses fail quietly

Twenty steps at 95% means two releases in three ship a flaw

A release passes through code, review, dependencies, build, deploy, monitoring, patching and backup. If each step is right 95% of the time, the whole chain is clean only 36% of the time, and real systems have far more than 20 steps. Move the sliders.

With BB2G, each step is gated: a check catches 99% of errors and stops the release instead of shipping it.

No gates
With BB2G gates
Chance the work is still clean after each step, no checks
A software release · gold steps are BB2G gates
Code writtenPeer reviewStatic analysisDependenciesSBOMKEV and CVE checkBuildSignedTestsSandbox detonationStagingBlast-radius rehearsalTwo-key approvalDeployMonitorPatchBackupRestore drillIncident drillRecover
Fail closedA gate that finds a problem stops the line. Shipping late is recoverable; shipping a known flaw to a water plant isn't.
National rankings · all 51 jurisdictions

How every state compares

Rank 1 has the highest FBI cybercrime complaint rate per resident (2025). Select a column to re-sort.

Incident record · 2016 – Nov. 2026

What has already happened

Documented cyberattacks on hospitals, utilities, transportation, government, schools and election systems, newest first, each linked to its source.

Jurisdiction profiles · 50 states + D.C.

Every state, on one page

2025 FBI cybercrime figures, confirmed ransomware attacks, and every documented incident in each jurisdiction.

Attack pathway

Route to harm, and where to break it

How attackers get from first access to physical and public harm, and the controls that stop them.

Entry routes

Phishing and stolen logins
Known exploited vulnerabilities
Zero-days in edge devices
Internet-exposed controllers
Vendors and remote access

Targets

Water and wastewater
Hospitals and 911
Power and utilities
Airports and transit
County and election networks

Harm

SafetyUnsafe water, diverted ambulances
AvailabilityServices offline for weeks
IntegrityAltered controls and records
ConfidentialityStolen patient and resident data
BreakpointsPATCH ROLLLATCHKEY keysOT isolationSelf-healing daemonBACKSTOP 3-2-1TRACK-BACK
Engagement plan

From exposure scan to self-healing systems

Start outside the fence, prove the controls, then harden every system.

Phase 1 · 30 days

Outside-in scan

  • Public exposure and leaked-credential scan, no system access.
  • Known exploited vulnerability list matched to the asset inventory.
  • Priority list for water, health and election networks.
Phase 2 · 2027

Pilot the stack

  • Self-scan and self-heal on one agency's services.
  • LATCHKEY keys for every privileged account.
  • First timed restore drill and incident exercise.
Phase 3 · 2027 – 2028

Scale

  • PATCH ROLL and CIS hardening statewide.
  • OT isolation for water and utility controls.
  • Same receipts and drills in every state.

Decision requested

Authorize an outside-in exposure scan to set owners, priorities and success measures for a cyber readiness pilot.

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Sources

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