International Cyber Terrorism

the NATO bombings of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. Businesses, public
organizations and academic institutions were bombarded with highly politicized emails
containing viruses from other European countries.
In December 2018, Twitter warned of "unusual activity" from China and Saudi Arabia. A
bug was detected in November that could have revealed the country code of users'
phone numbers. Twitter said the bug could have had ties to "state-sponsored actors".
In fiction
• The Japanese cyberpunk manga, Ghost in the Shell (as well as its popular movie
and TV adaptations) centers around an anti-cyberterrorism and cybercrime unit.
In its mid-21st century Japan setting such attacks are made all the more
threatening by an even more widespread use of technology including cybernetic
enhancements to the human body allowing people themselves to be direct
targets of cyberterrorist attacks.
• Dan Brown's Digital Fortress.
• Amy Eastlake's Private Lies.
• In the movie Live Free or Die Hard, John McClane (Bruce Willis) takes on a
group of cyberterrorists intent on shutting down the entire computer network of
the United States.
• The movie Eagle Eye involves a super computer controlling everything electrical
and networked to accomplish the goal.
• The plots of 24 Day 4 and Day 7 include plans to breach the nation's nuclear
plant grid and then to seize control of the entire critical infrastructure protocol.
• The Tom Clancy created series Netforce was about a FBI/Military team
dedicated to combating cyberterrorists.
• Much of the plot of Mega Man Battle Network is centered around cyberterrorism.
• In the 2009 Japanese animated film Summer Wars, an artificial intelligence
cyber-terrorist attempts to take control over the world's missiles in order to "win"
against the main characters that attempted to keep it from manipulating the
world's electronic devices.
• In the 2012 film Skyfall, part of the James Bond franchise, main villain Raoul
Silva (Javier Bardem) is an expert cyberterrorist who is responsible for various
cyberterrorist incidents in the past.
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