A recent analysis by Helene Pleil, research associate at the Digital Society Institute (DSI) at [ESMT Berlin|https://esmt.berlin/], alongside colleagues.
Cyberweapons are a broad term that can be used to describe anything from keyloggers to ransomware, or to something that takes down an energy grid. With. 23.05.2022, Sputnik International
were ever going to deter putin. chairman, you mentioned cyberramifications here, domestically in the u.s. the way russia has operated, we have seen it, they re in, right, they have put themselves into systems, whether it is companies, or it is within agency infrastructure, within the u.s. government, almost like a ticking time bomb, maybe waiting for this moment to go off. do you feel like you have a good handle on how in they are into those systems? we have known for some time that russia has been very aggressive about prepositioning malware, bugs, cybertools, on critical infrastructure, not only in the united states, but across the west. what we don t know is how many of those tools, how many of those cyberweapons will they activate. as david knows, he s written about this, probably as much as anybody in the world, a number of years ago russia launched with a single cyberweapon an
attack against ukraine, called a cyberparlance netpecha. it shut down a lot of the ukrainian economy. because the cyberweapons, once their released, it cost the west, including the united states billions of dollars as those network malware spread across whole networks, rebounded back against the russian economy itself. that was one cyberweapon. what happens if russia unleashes ten, 100, 1,000 of their cyberweapons simultaneously? we are in the land of unprecedented type of cyberdomain and frankly how we counter that, we have cyberweapons, but we have been very concerned for a long period of time about cyberescalation. one of the reasons why america and the west always said if we re attacked on our cyberbasis, we may respond in a different modality because cyber escalation is unprecedented in territory. senator, i want to thank you so much. mark warner for being with us.