The Cyberwar has been used to terrorize individual companies and entire governments. Civilians are denied basic services like electricity and heat. Most disturbingly, cyber warfare appears to be evolving in the hands of countries like Iran, North Korea, and Russia as new disruptive and destructive cyber attack techniques advance. The threat of cyber war looms in the future and we will see why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It would not be considered an act of cyberwarfare for cybercriminals to lock down a bank’s computer systems while trying to steal money, even if they come from a rival nation. But the acts of state-backed hackers who do the same to destabilize the economy of a rival state can be considered cyberwar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An example that can be considered cyberwar is the case of the 2010 Stuxnet computer worm, designed to attack a specific type of centrifuges for the production of enriched uranium that Iran had and, in this way, sabotage its possible production of fissile material for bombs. atomic. It is considered that this malware was created by some US government agency as a form of cyber warfare to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, but either this has not been proven or it has not been publicly accepted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a bleak world that is still full of spies, hackers, and top-secret digital weapons projects, cyber warfare is an increasingly common and dangerous feature of international conflicts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Attacks by individual hackers, or even groups of hackers, would generally not be considered a cyber war, unless they were being aided and directed by a state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Among the infrastructures that can become the target of a cyber attack we have, among others, enemy army bases and command systems such as those used by land, air or sea forces, communications, or energy supply. The Cyberwar has been used to terrorize individual companies and entire governments. Civilians are denied basic services like electricity and heat. Most disturbingly, cyber warfare appears to be evolving in the hands of countries like Iran, North Korea, and Russia as new disruptive and destructive cyber attack techniques advance. The threat of cyber war looms […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[293,39],"class_list":["post-1804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-cyberwar","tag-guide"],"yoast_head":"\n
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Cybercriminals are targeting health institutions<\/a>
The History of Cybersecurity \u2013 and how it has evolved<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"