It’s not just about entertainment out there on the internet. There’s also a battlefield.
I learned more about it when I read Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers and wrote my thoughts about it here (on my previous website).
And in light of spreading fake news on the internet, an emerging cyberwar dimension is the information war.
What does it look like?
From Ukraine’s ‘IT army’ has conducted 8,000 cyberattacks against Russia: minister:
Operating through the messaging app Telegram, the cyber army targets Russian state-sponsored media outlets “spreading disinformation in brainwashing their own population”, as well as financial drivers of the war.
“If you stop their activity at least for one day, many lives of our citizens and soldiers are saved,” said Dubynskyi, referring to funding from sources such as Russian energy firm Gazprom.
The IT army had also successfully attacked the website of the Wagner Group, a Russian paramilitary organisation, to delete large amounts of data, he added.
Now, even when you are not in the war but as an individual, you wonder how to spot fake news, this list might help you sort out the content you consume online.
jessa 