Cyberwar

Abstract

Invasion, terrorist attacks, drone strikes, insurgency and counterinsurgency, civil strife, and foreign intervention have already spread around the world, but war is now spreading and intensifying in a new form waged across digital networks: cyberwar. This war is fought through the use of computers and the internet. Today, the central part of organizational activities has been converted to digital format. Cybercriminals are continually developing new attack types, tools, and strategies that enable them to access settings that are more complicated or well-controlled, do more harm, and even remain undiscovered. This chapter discusses the history of cyber war, its emergence, and the different forms of cyberattacks and various repercussions of cybercrime, including its influence on the health of organizations, the psychological and social threats it poses to workers, and other outcomes. Cybercrime is defined and exposed by specialist literature.