We see a lot of headlines in the news, but it stems from the nation states attacking. Youtube video from Black Hat Asia2018
China attacks specific companies.
Russia also attacks in cyberspace and it culminated when Russia attacked Estonia 2008, also the next year a military physical attack in Georgia with a Cyberspace attack as well.
Snowden disclosed the US attack of Stuxnet into Iranian centrifuges.
This is a ‘right’ of the nation state attackers using their knowledge of Zero Days and encrypted keys. Where the nation states say it is their right to attack other nation states, because “no one will know” as it is not a physical attack.
Except this culminated in a Russian attack on power infrastructure attack where Estonia lost power for several days.
The side effect of Stuxnet was that other hackers(criminal etc) figured out how the attack was done, then investigated this possibility and eventually was able to create a new attack with malware for ransomware.
So what does this mean? It means that attackers will eventually figure out the defensive flaws that one normally cannot see or notice.
the actual methods of inserting programs are varied, sometimes the user allows the software to run with spearphishing or just clicking on the wrong site on the Internet.
Above picture is from “Decentralized malware youtube video“.
The trust the private sector has in their computers between customer and company is not in the thoughts of nation-states attacking each other.
A side effect of nation states attacking each other is the need for better defenses for all, since we are all on the Internet. Once the knowledge of attacks comes out of the shadows the criminal hackers take a little bit of time and develop the attacks also.
So you may not look like you have anything to attack, but if you are on the Internet you will be attacked.
The only thing you can do is to create a defense that can handle even sophisticated attacks.
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