Introduction to Cyber-Warfare - Proiect SEMPER FIDELIS

P A R T IICYBER ESPIONAGE ANDEXPLOITATIONIn this part, we discuss cyber espionage and exploitation, which deals withthe theft of information through and from computer systems. Throughoutthe last decade, there have been many such incidents which are believedto be politically motivated. In most of these cases, the data are stolen as partof intelligence collection, theft of intellectual property and/or to gain a technologicalknowledge of an adversary’s weapons systems. Many such eventswere attributed to hackers from China. Hence, all of Chapter 7 is dedicated tocyber espionage attributed to China. This if followed by a discussion of themore recently discovered cyber-based intelligence gathering platforms suchas Duqu, Flame, and Gauss in Chapter 8. Then we discuss of social networkexploitation in Chapter 9—which is an emerging trend in social engineeringand intelligence collection. Finally, in Chapter 10, we take a more tacticalview of cyber exploitation in studying the interception of unencrypted videofeed from the Predator drones during Operation Iraqi Freedom by Shi’itemilitants.