Exponential Surge In Cyber Incidents
The contemporary Cyber Warfare is unlike any war we have witnessed till about a decade back. It will undoubtedly continue to be a dynamically critical part of our future generations. Cyber warfare has enabled war-fighting in a different yet significant domain using soft weapons such as computer viruses, malware, and programs that can remotely alter adversary’s network efficiency and operability. Cyber attacks happen be creating a unique battlefield — unseen, invisible, and unpredictable, where hackers from the entire human race compete to cripple economies and disrupt lives of people.
Every single day breaking news flashes with major cyber-attacks or network intrusion headlines. Barely below the threshold of an armed conflict, these are extremely grave and potentially damaging kind of activities which can break the backbone of an organization or a country as whole. Microsoft released an emergency security update in Mar 2021 to patch windows vulnerabilities which had been hacked by Hafnium, a Chinese nation state-sponsored hacking group. As of 09 March 2021, it was estimated that 250000 servers fell victim to the attacks, including servers belonging to around 30000 organizations in USA, 7000 servers in UK, Norway & Chile.
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Cyber Security In Harmony With Artificial Intelligence
The effectiveness of Artificial Intelligence techniques against cyber security risks needs quantitative methods of research and design along with primary data. An efficient counter cyber intelligence tool needs to continuously collect information and data from various resources including individuals and organizations. A confirmatory factor analysis, discriminant validity, basic analysis of model and hypothesis assessment has to be carried out based on a sample data. It is indeed a long-drawn process and laborious process, however, the technological advances in this domain with dedicated research and development by certain niche private enthusiasts has enabled effective counter measures towards monitoring and identification of gaps. Artificial Intelligence in consonance with Cybersecurity has caused an unprecedented increase in the types of cyber systems that are capable of performing tasks much faster and better.
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The Wanna Cry Fiasco
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Another glaring example of a cyber-security disaster has been the Wanna Cry ransomware attack. We are increasingly facing major political and democratic challenges as to who comprises “the public” in relation to such incidents. Wanna Cry type Cyber-security incidents do not neatly align with traditional national security politics and democracy. This may paradoxically entail both political and democratic challenges and possibilities for security politics in the digital age.
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Recent Deadly Cyber attacks Around the Globe
Azerbaijan As a fallout of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia & Azerbaijan in Oct 2020, unidentified spies quietly breached Azerbaijani government IT networks and accessed their diplomatic passports. The hackers used a fake Azerbaijani government document as a bait, while the malicious code embedded in the document exfiltrated data from their compromised computers.
Ethiopia In June 2020 Egypt based hackers tried to hack 13 websites of public organizations and four non-governmental organizations. The attacks targeted information technology infrastructure, communications and websites of public service agencies, security organizations and other public and private institutions.
Iran On 8th February 2020, an extensive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack was made on Iran's telecommunication network, which lasted for about an hour.
Israel During April 2020, a cyber attack on Israel's water infrastructure of the Sharon central region was prevented by Israeli Cyber Defence. This cyber-attack by Iranian hackers was intended to modify chlorine levels in the Israeli water supply.
Norway During August 2020, the email system of several Norwegian parliament officials was compromised. Investigations revealed that the Russian cyber espionage group Fancy Bear was behind the attacks.
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The Cyber warfare Platte
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The enormity of cyber warfare domain can be judged through the various cyber weapons being launched to harass nation states & legitimate governments.
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Cyber Propaganda
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Propagating false or misleading information to sway public opinion using social media, fake news websites, and other digital means. It is an effort to control information in whatever form it takes, and influence public opinion.
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Sabotage
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Cyber sabotage is a term that involves state and non-state actors targeting the computing systems and controlling the censorious infrastructure of a nation.
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Economic Disruption
Attackers may use varied techniques to harm selected particular business organizations or national economies. Cyber-crime losses amount to about $300 billion to $1 trillion to world's economy which is 0.4% to 1.4% of its total GDP.
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Espionage
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Cyber espionage is a form of cyber-attack that steals classified, sensitive data or intellectual property to gain an advantage over a competitive company or government entity.
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