Hacking Increasingly Used by Governments for Statecraft

In its review of a series of new books, an article published in the MIT Technology Review reflects on nation states expanding use of hacking to try to shape and bend geopolitics. The article revisits some of the most significant events of the past decade in which governments took to the digital environment to advance their objectives. It focuses mainly on activities and campaigns undertaken by Russia. These include Russia’s campaigns against the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the 2018 Olympic Winter Games as well as what some refer to as its “cyber war” against Ukraine that has resulted in impacts to that country’s critical infrastructure, including its electric grid. Russia is not alone, as the article observes, with the Chinese, Iranian, and North Korean governments all having undertaken their own cyber operations in the past and undoubtedly conducting and planning more. Read the article at the MIT Technology Review.