Cybergeddon

This article is about the internet security term. For the film, see Cybergeddon (film).

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Cybergeddon (from tech. cyber-, lit. "computer"; Hebrew: Megiddo, extracted from Har Megiddo ("mountain of final battle")) refers to cataclysm resulting from a large-scale sabotage of all computerized networks, systems and activities. It combines cyberterrorism, cyberwarfare, cybercrime, and hacktivism into scenarios of wide-scale internet disruption or economic collapse. Economic or industrial infrastructure could be targeted, such as banks or industrial control systems. Since 2012, the number of Internet-based attacks and their complexity has increased.

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"Cybergeddon is a possibility," FireEye CEO Ashar Aziz explained in an interview with Bloomberg: "Attacks on critical infrastructures such as the power grid or financial institutions could wreak havoc not just on United States economy, but in fact, the world economy."

The Defense Technical Information Center cited nuclear electromagnetic pulse attacks as a part of the military action that may bring about cybergeddon.

"The missing ‘cybergeddon’: what Ukraine can tell us about the future of cyber war" Cyber security researcher of the International Institute for Strategic Studies Rafal Rohozinski This defines the scale of cybergodon in war: "Digital defenses are starting to take shape, and this may signal a shift towards a more dangerous phase of the cyber war. But the ‘cybergeddon’ we expected to see in the first major clash between advanced industrial states in the twenty-first century is not the one we got."

"Cyber Theory: Cybergeddon is coming" Behzad Qasemi, the founder of Overclock Cybersecurity Laboratory, put forward the following theory in a report in Asia newspaper: " Cybergeddon can also happen like Armageddon. A phenomenon that is beyond human control and is caused by system errors. Artificial intelligence and machine learning give self-organization to computer ecosystems based on machine learning. This ability will include the possibility of providing a higher level of access to the system itself.

Cambridge Center for Risk Studies: Cybergeddon is The Features of Cyber Risk cataclysm resulting from a large- scale sabotage of all computerized networks, systems and activities.

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