The Iranian government announced that it had repelled 33 million cyber attacks in 2018 alone.
The attack on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) that crippled its factories in 2018 exposes how networked manufacturing open to risks.
The US Cyber Command launched ‘Operation Glowing Symphony’ in 2016 to disrupt the ISIS terrorist network’s media service. Israeli firm NSO has sold illicit communication tapping software to several state-clients. Venezuela has blamed a US cyber-attack for a 24 hour power black-out in 2019
Defenseworld.net looks at the key cyber attack and defence weapons and main state-actors orchestrating such attacks.