Russia wages disinformation war. Ukraine's cyber chief calls for global anti-fake news fight
A recentsurvey of 24,525 people from 19 countries ranked the spread of false information online as their second-biggest worry with 70 percent of those surveyed saying it represents a"major threat" to their country.
"This same way of attacking humans' brains is used in other countries," Zhora said. And as such, it requires a coordinated, cross-border effort to thwart, much like the more typically destructive forms of cyberattacks, he added. "Completely new approaches should be developed to prevent the influence of this propaganda, to prevent subversion in our partner countries and our allies," Zhora said."Cybersecurity is a joint effort, and countering propaganda and disinformation also [requires] joint policy and global policy."With other types of cyberthreats, such as ransomware, data-wiping malware, and DDoS floods, the cost to business is typically top of mind.
US National Cyber Director Chris Inglis touched on this during his mWISE keynote address, and said he's seen"attacks on confidence" escalate over the past five to 10 years., where, of course, it was an attack on an undefended virtual private network," Inglis said. In this May 2021 intrusion, Russia's DarkSide group broke into Colonial's IT system, prompting the company to shut down all of its pipeline operations before the criminals accessed that part of the business. And this fed into an East Coast fuel shortage when the pipeline remained out of service for five days, prompting"At the end of the day, it was really an attack on confidence," Inglis said.