Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
A new breed of sophisticated hacker is emerging as one of the most worrisome digital adversaries for western intelligence chiefs: cyber privateers. Just as England’s Queen Elizabeth I officially licensed pirates to plunder the treasure ships of her rival Philip II of Spain in the 16th century, nations such as Russia and Iran are increasingly arming and encouraging criminal and activist groups with the cyber weaponry necessary to harm their adversaries, while keeping themselves at arms length, say senior security and defence officials in the US and Europe. “A lot of the techniques that were the preserve of state-sponsored attackers are starting to make their way into broader communities of criminals,” said Simon Goldsmith of the defence contractor BAE System’s cyber unit, Applied Intelligence. “It’s proliferating in a massive way and the object of attacks by these groups is moving from large financial theft to using the same techniques to commit sabotage and for intelligence-gathering.” State use of proxy agents to carry out disguised attacks is not new. But a recent shift has been noted, with a significant increase in the sophistication and number of worrisome attacks from non-state groups, western security officials have told the Financial Times. They […]
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