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Cyber Element in the Russia-Ukraine War & its Global Implications

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The recent Taiwan visit by US Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi brought the increasing cyber threats to national security to light again. According to Taipei Times, systems like electronic bulletin boards at railway stations and convenience stores were hacked, and government websites were attacked and brought down, even before Pelosi arrived on the island nation.

It was reported that television screens behind cashiers in some of the 7-Eleven convenience stores—a US-based multinational retail company—were compromised to display statements like “Warmonger Pelosi, get out of Taiwan!”. In another instance, an electronic board at the Sinzuoying railway station showed a message in simplified Chinese which translated into “The visit of the old witch to Taiwan is a serious challenge to the core of the country. Those who actively welcome it will eventually be judged by people, the blood ties of the same race will continue to be separated, great China will eventually be unified”.

Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s digital minister, highlighted that before and after the visit, Taiwan observed 23 times higher cyberattacks than the previous daily record. However, without directly blaming any state or non-state actor for the attacks, Taipei underlined that the attacks originated from addresses in China and Russia.   

At the recently concluded DEFCON—a US-based annual hacker convention—the White House National Cyber Director, Chris Inglis, remarked that “the way forward for cybersecurity is defence, defined roles and responsibilities, and investing in resilience and robustness”. He stressed the ‘three-wave of attacks’ observed in recent years. The three waves focus on –

  1. Holding data and systems at risk
  2. Keeping the data and systems at risk but abstracting it into holding critical functions at risk
  3. Attack on confidence

He asserted that while there is a lack of imagination and anticipation of future attacks, there is also a need for clarity on roles and responsibilities, strengthening supply chains, and focus on collective defence. According to him, “the attackers seek to defeat one, and in the process, they are able to defeat all.”

From this perspective,…

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Mobile Anti Malware Market demand and future scope with Russia-Ukraine Crisis Impact Analysis –Symantec, Sophos, Mcafee, Avast Software, AVG Technologies, Malwarebytes, Bitdefender, Lookout, Kaspersky Lab

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How we addressed cyber threats heightened by Russia-Ukraine crisis – NSA

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The National Security Adviser, Maj.-Gen. Babagana Monguno (Rtd), has revealed that the ongoing Russian-Ukraine crisis heightened cyber threats in the country.

He, however, said the Cybercrime Advisory Council at its 9th meeting which he chaired, addressed the threats through increased routine monitoring activities.

According to him, other strategy was advisories to relevant stakeholders, and holding of sectoral Computer Security Incidents Response Teams meeting.

He said the meeting which held last Thursday was to facilitate incident management coordination, enhance reporting and strengthen information sharing mechanism in order further tackle the threats.

In a statement by the Head, Strategic Communications, Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA), Zakari Usman, the office launched Cybersecurity Toolkits for Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs).

He said the council noted that the toolkits would be available for use to protect online activities of over 41 million MSMEs that operate in Nigeria.

The statement partly read, ”The Cybercrime Advisory Council meeting held Thursday, 31 March 2022 updated members on activities and events since the 8th Meeting of the Council in compliance with the National Cybersecurity Policy and Strategy (NCPS) 2021 and the provisions of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention etc) Act 2015.

”As part of measures to address emerging cyber threats heightened by the Russia-Ukraine crisis, ngCERT has increased its routine monitoring activities and advisories to relevant stakeholders and held sectoral Computer Security Incidents Response Teams meeting on 29 March 2022 to facilitate incident management coordination, enhance reporting and strengthen information sharing mechanism.”

The retired military officer added that his office is putting in place different measures to sensitize state governments on emerging threats and how to protect telecommunications assets in their…

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Explained: Why the Russia-Ukraine war threatens to splinter the internet

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In 2001, when the internet was staring at a slew of regulations from across the globe, Clyde Wayne Crews, a researcher at libertarian think-tank Cato Institute, proposed the idea of ‘splinternet’ — an internet splintered into disparate realms controlled by different dispensations or powers.

The fundamental proposal was to have more internets instead of having more regulations.

Over the past two decades, a splintering of internet has occurred in some limited ways. China’s ‘Great Firewall’ keeps American tech giants out while pushing online services developed indigenously. Russia, in 2019, passed the sovereign internet law — or the online Iron Curtain — that enabled the country to disconnect its internet from rest of the world.

The splintering

Crews may have been ahead of his time in propounding a splinternet. But the events of the past four weeks pose the first serious challenge to the way the internet has evolved into a global system of interconnected computer networks, that use the Internet Protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices.

However dystopian the idea may have seemed over these years, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine does seem as a potential trigger for a splintered internet. France’s digital affairs envoy Henri Verdier, in an interview to Bloomberg News, recently stated that the combination of Moscow’s increasing online censorship attempts, combined with Ukraine’s repeated calls for Russia to be taken offline, could potentially offer the trigger for the eventual “fragmentation of the internet.”

“Will the unique, neutral, multi-stakeholder, free internet survive this crisis?” Verdier asked. “I’m not sure.”

The internet is essentially a global network of physical cables, which can include copper telephone wires, TV cables, and fiber optic cables, alongside wireless connections such as Wi-Fi and 3G/4G, that leverage the physical cables to hook users and devices on to the internet. Countries hook on to global web services via undersea cables or nodes that are connection points through which data is transmitted to and from other countries’ communication networks. The concept of the splinternet envisages blocks or…

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