Cyberwarfare News Round-Up: April 2022
The Russo-Ukrainian was continues to rage on in both the physical world and cyberspace, providing an ongoing stream of events to analyze and new security threats to study. While the world is focused on this conflict, other threat actors remains active and mostly unreported.
INTSUM: Russia-Ukraine Conflict in Cyberspace
The ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine has been the main highlight of March 2022, generating a significant increase in online activity. As a majority of the world united against Russian aggression, multiple hacktivist groups have targeted Belarusian and Russian institutions
The Past, Present and Future of Chinese Cyber Operations
China, as one of many alleged actors on the frontier of cyber espionage, is best understood by briefly examining the past century, how it influences contemporary cyber operations attributed to Chinese-based actors, and how they could be used against the Canadian Armed Forces in a potential Southeast Asian conflict.
The Palestine-Israeli Conflict on the Web
As any conflict that happened in the 21st century, there is usually a parallel conflict raging online as well. Either commanded by individuals or groups, which can be helped or not by either government agencies or other interest groups, acts of cyberwarfare are getting more and more common. The conflict in the Gaza strip offers […]
Cyber Warfare Will Limit U.S Freedom of Action
Not entirely cyber warfare related but still a very interesting read, but according to the Global Trends 2025 report by the National Intelligence Council, irregular warfare, which cyber warfare is part of, will play a determinant part in the future of the United States: “… expanded adoption of irregular warfare tactics by both state and […]
Survey Points to Energy Sector at Risk of Cyber Attacks
A survey of 200 leaders from the critical infrastructure industries revealed that the energy sector is the most likely to be victim of a cyber attack. The survey was completed by IDC was conducted in August and October in Canada, the U.S and Europe[1]. The reasons to explain this phenomenon are the cost, apathy and […]
TCP/IP Weapons Course to be Given at Black Hat Europe
For those who can get on location – and can afford it – Richard Bejtlich, from TaoSecurity will give a 2-days course on how to detect and react to an attack on a network. The course will cover those points: Collection: What data do you need to detect intruders? How can you acquire it? What […]
Whitehouse Hacked by Chinese Several Times
An unnamed senior US official has declared to the Financial Times that the Whitehouse computer network was victim to numerous cyber attacks from China. According to the same official, the attackers had access to e-mails for short periods of time[1]. The unclassified network of the Whitehouse was breach numerous times by the attackers, which may […]
Chinese Cyber Warfare to Gain Military Superiority
Since the 70s, when Deng Xiaoping was the head of China, the People’s Liberation Army tried to modernize itself and cut its size in order to become more efficient. Still, China is still behind when it comes to military even if its defense budget is the second largest after the United States on the planet, […]
U.S Air Force Cyber Command is Working on a new Roadmap
A new roadmap will be written for the reorganization of what was once the U.S Cyber Command now downgraded from a major command to a numbered unit,