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What is the consequence of cyber warfare slowly becoming increasingly common?
The “happy hacker” of the 80s and 90s, he said, is long gone. Instead, we now have to deal with criminals who try to make money from their malware and botnets, hacktivists who try to protest and governments attacking their own citizens and other governments for espionage and full-scale cyber warfare.
As for cyber warfare in general, one thing Hypponen especially stressed is the difference between cyber espionage and cyber warfare. Spying, said Hypponen, is not warfare. “Warfare is something different,” he said. “It’s when you start using malware, viruses and backdoors to target our critical infrastructure.” Today, he argued we are seeing the very first stages of a global cyber arms race. We are now seeing many other governments besides U.S. and Israel jump on the same bandwagon and now that other countries see that these attacks are successful, they want to jump on the bandwagon, too.
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