It’s Hard to Find a Black Cat in a Dark Room, Especially If It Isn’t There: RAND on the Search for Cyber Coercion
It’s Hard to Find a Black Cat in a Dark Room, Especially If It Isn’t There: RAND on the Search for Cyber Coercion What It’s Hard to is cyber coercion have used cyber to coerce others? These questions addressed in RAND think tank’s recent “Fighting Shadows in Understanding Countering in Cyberspace“. discuss cyber conducted four — Russia, North — try to determine whether activities amounted to cyber Starting with study think that like Russia North appear to be more to have used cyber as a coercive tool China Iran. also find that, do not make distinct with unambiguous demands for in behaviour often. hiding behind proxies. What is cyber coercion and how have states used cyber operations to coerce others? These are the questions addressed in the RAND think tank’s recent report “Fighting Shadows in the Dark. Understanding and Countering Coercion in Cyberspace“. The authors discuss cyber operations conducted by four states — Russia, China, Iran and North Korea — and try to determine...