Cybergeddon
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Cybergeddon (from tech. cyber-, lit. "computer"; Hebrew: Megiddo, extracted from Har Megiddo ("mountain of final battle")) refers to a 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.[1] Economic or industrial infrastructure could be targeted, such as banks[2] or industrial control systems.[3] Since 2012, the number of Internet-based attacks and their complexity has increased.[4]
Technical analysis
"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 the United States economy, but in fact, the world economy."[5]
The Defense Technical Information Center cited nuclear electromagnetic pulse attacks as part of the military action that may bring about cybergeddon.[6]
"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 defines the scale of cybergeddon 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."[7]
"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.[8]
Cambridge Center for Risk Studies: Cybergeddon is the feature of Cyber Risk – a cataclysm resulting from a large-scale sabotage of all computerized networks, systems and activities.[9]
References
- ↑ Goodwin, Bill (2014-01-17). "Internet at risk of 'cybergeddon' says WEF". Computer Weekly. Retrieved 2014-07-07.
- ↑ Marks, Paul (2012-06-25). "Banking outage gives tiny glimpse of cybergeddon". New Scientist. Retrieved 2014-07-07.
- ↑ Chirgwin, Richard (2012-11-12). "New report warns of SCADA CYBERGEDDON*". The Register. Retrieved 2014-07-07.
- ↑ "Keeping 'Cybergeddon' at bay". Business Spectator. 2012-10-31. Retrieved 2014-07-07.
- ↑ "FireEye CEO Says 'Cybergeddon' Is a Possibility [sic]: Video". Bloomberg. 2011-06-24. Retrieved 2012-11-22.
- ↑ Pry, Peter (2017-07-27). "Nuclear EMP Attack Scenarios and Combined-Arms Cyber Warfare". Defense Technical Information Center. Archived from the original on March 17, 2021. Retrieved 2022-01-05. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "The missing 'cybergeddon': what Ukraine can tell us about the future of cyber war". IISS. Retrieved 2023-09-12.
- ↑ آسیا, روزنامه. "Cyber Theory: Cybergeddon is coming". روزنامه آسیا (in فارسی). Retrieved 2023-09-12.
- ↑ Daffron, Jennifer. "CYBERGEDDEN VS. CYBERTOPIA: KEY VARIABLES IN DETERMINING THE FUTURE OF CYBER RISK" (PDF). university of cambridge - Centre for Risk Studies.
