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1 - The Spectre of Cyberwar

from Part I - Cybersecurity Incidents and International Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 March 2020

Henning Lahmann
Henning Lahmann
Affiliation:
Digital Society Institute, ESMT Berlin
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Summary

Describing examples of noteworthy cybersecurity incidents and cyber operations of the past fifteen years, this chapter outlines the current transnational cybersecurity landscape. Focusing on some of the political implications, it is examined how states have reacted to operations that were supposedly carried out by adversarial states, such as the distributed denial-of-service attacks in Estonia in 2007, the Stuxnet operation jointly undertaken by Israel and the United States against the Iranian uranium enrichment programme, incidents triggered by the WannaCry and NotPetya malwares, or the Russian hacking and disinformation campaigns in the run-up to the US presidential election in 2016.

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cyberwarcybersecurity incidentsdisinformation campaignsStuxnetEstoniashadowbrokerscyberweapons
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Unilateral Remedies to Cyber Operations
Self-Defence, Countermeasures, Necessity, and the Question of Attribution
 , pp. 3 - 16
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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