What is Cyberwarfare?
Cyberwarfare is the dispute started due to the political influence on the computer of an enemy, where the information system may also be hacked. These attacks drastically impact the business and organizations after stealing the data to threaten the system, services, or websites. Sometimes, Cyberwarfare is also known as Cyber Warfare in Cyber War.
Cyberwarfare can affect attack on the nations, citizens, the government, or organizations may cause to bring harmful results for the organizations through hacking the weaponry system.
The cyberwarfare can’t happen with declared antagonist but these happen with the hidden people working under the enemy government
Some prominent experts say that cyber warfare can be performed with the implementation of computer technology for the disruption of the actions of a position or institution particularly to attack the information system for military purposes. A difficulty also exists with cyber warfare where it becomes very hard to work out who initiated the attack in the very first point.
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There have been so many cyberwarfare incidents in the world that claim liability for the attacks and it is also possible to consider it with the geopolitical circumstances. Hacking in cyber warfare is never easy to find & prove the responsible authorities if the involvement of any state or country or government comes to light.
Do you think the weapons are used only for physical attacks or assaults? Probably no, there are so many other cyberwar ways, where the cybercriminals use various weapons for making the harm on the organizations or government’s secret data or information giving to the enemy’s organization or government.
After the launching of botnets, DDoS (distributed denial of service) initiation has also made possible which is greatly responsible for the disruption of the critical services or acts as support distracting smokescreen for any action on the particular system or network.
Moreover, hackers also implementing social engineering and spear-phishing techniques for the infiltration into the government’s or organization’s data or information. It has also been seen that the insider threat is also the weapon used by the intruders for the cyber warfare by which they can steal the highly sensitive and secret material of the institute.
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You’ll also aware the Stuxnet, discovered in the year 2010 was an extremely sophisticated computer worm and it has also presented a great example of the implementation of the multiple layers. After infecting the computer, Stuxnet also reviews whether the computer is connected to the specific models of the PLC (programmable logic controllers) produced by Siemens.
A great example has also been noticed in the Iranian nuclear power plant when an employee of the company inserted a USB which was infected with the Stuxnet worm into an air-gapped operation. After being infected with the system, there were many other machines were also come under the Stuxnet infection and the number of machines was more than 1,000.
It has also been said by some cyber experts that the cyberweapons were made with the joint venture of Israel and the USA to provide the secret information of the countries’ upcoming proposals.
Cyber attacks are deemed as against the governments or organizations and these are drastically implemented by the western countries for spying adversary countries.
It has also come into our knowledge that Russia and China are developing cyber weapons to combat their adversaries like the USA. Israel and France have also entered into this race and have started making the cyberweapons but they are currently not using such tactics to intrude secure systems of the countries.
There is only one example of cyber warfare known for us; Stuxnet which is said to be the joint venture of Israel and USA’s military intelligence to detect the nuclear program of Iran.
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Cyberwarfare has various cyber attacks methods:
Security violations: With the help of this method, hackers practice illegal ways to disable the networks or systems or software or internet and thus they acquire secret information or data for military or financial or political benefits,
Sabotage: Sabotage is another method of cyber warfare where the military and financial computer systems are being targeted and they are at risk for the disruption of normal operation along with the equipment. They can influence the communication, power, fuel, and transportation infrastructure greatly.
Conclusion:
Some western countries have developed the tactic like cyber warfare to intrude on the confidential projects of various counties and some countries are also underway to develop such ways to counter these countries. However, these things are harmful to the peace of the world and harmony between the people.
The competition is rising every day to intrude on the data of the various antagonists but they should be constrained to stop. Meantime, we should also develop ways to combat those things and some necessary measures can also encounter such events.
Many system procedures have also started developing and tested to protect the cyberwarfare attacks. After developing such tactics, the organization will great able to combat its system from various vulnerabilities for the removal of cyber attacks and defense as well.
Most of the common hackers are well trained, who usually make fun during the intrusion in the system and this is the tactic of making fool to the people. Most of the developed countries use well-funded hackers for stealing information from various organizations.
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