SPY WARS

摘要

On almost any given day it is easy to find a story in the press reporting various types of cyber crime, cyber espionage or even cyber warfare. Whether it is a criminally inspired attack like the WannaCry ransomware attack in May 2017 - which targeted computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system by encrypting data and demanding ransom payments in the Bitcoin cryptocurrency - or a politically motivated espionage such as that recently reported in the Wall Street Journal when: "hackers working for the Russian Government stole details of how the US penetrates foreign computer networks and defends against cyber attacks after a National Security Agency contractor removed the highly classified material and put it on his home computer, according to multiple people with knowledge of the matter. The breach is considered the most serious in years, could enable Russia to evade NSA surveillance and more easily infiltrate US networks."