Gintaras Radauskas
At the World Economic Forum, cybersecurity professionals who participated in one of the summit’s panels discussed how geopolitical crises are extending into uncharted territories these days.
Indeed, almost every day now, we hear about major ransom attacks paralyzing hospitals and other major infrastructure, and the cyberwar between the US and China is escalating.
Late last year, Chinese hackers breached the ultra-sensitive systems of the US Treasury Department. They also hacked telecommunications networks across America and gained the ability to shut down US ports, power grids, and other targets almost at will.
Sources told The Wall Street Journal back then that China’s keyboard warriors, “once seen as the cyber equivalent of noisy, drunken burglars,” have become astonishingly skilled and stealthy cyber soldiers, building leverage inside US computer networks in case open conflict between the countries breaks out, say, over Taiwan.
Needless to say, cyberspace is a dangerous place right now. How can the international community move towards a detente?
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