What that ultimately means is that as we enter the 2020s, nation-state backed cyberattacks are going to remain very much part of cyber espionage, and the murky side of international relations, as more countries look to develop in this space. SEE: Cybercrime and cyberwar: A spotter's guide to the groups that are out to get you "Cyber is a relatively easy capability compared to everything else, which has made things more closer together globally."
"There's a plethora of open-source information about how this stuff happens," says Read. But the evolution of campaigns coming from places like Vietnam, the Middle East, Pakistan and others means that there's likely to be more attacks coming in future, with each using their own techniques and lures in an effort to commit subterfuge against their intended targets.īut with new techniques and tools becoming available to hacking units outside of the big four – especially since the Shadow Brokers leak that released some of the US National Security Agency's secret tools into the wild, some of which have since been used in offensive campaigns – it's only going to get easier for smaller players to grab a piece of the cyber pie. If an attacker managed to breach one of those targets, it could potentially give them access to vast swathes of classified information to use as they see fit, be it for espionage or something else.Ĭyber espionage against Western nations isn't new. "Listings from what looks like a government website for high-level jobs – you can imagine the people who'd be interested in clicking that," says Olson.
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