Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Some irregular thoughts on cyber weapons

My thought about cyber weapons ..
I'm thinking how we are probably misinterpreting cyber weapons, probably because there is no bodypile at the moment. 

From web, Cyberweapon is "cyberweapon is a malware agent employed for militaryparamilitary, or intelligence objectives." it is not very helpful definition. I should say that much better definition is derived directly from term weapon where intention is much clearer. 

Anyhow we are missing part of cyber weapons and its environments where it is used. The space where cyber weapons are used should be studied and analyzed in sense to show how this space reacts and than interacts with cyber weapon. Also how cyberweapon can be prevented or minimized as possible tool for retribution.

I should say ti will be important to understand epidemiological approach to cyber weapon and space of its application. For example lets look at last cyberweapons exposure or weapon leaks. First weapon was developed, stockpiled and than used, some time after usage weapon was exposed trough leak and used by criminal organisation and other non-original users.  Here we have interesting events going on. As soon as weapon is used (activated since it can be dormant) or better to say released (like germs) it will be also available to its primary target. If weapon is active there will be some effects on the targets and target will soon find out what and how it was attacked. Results are this weapon is not secret to primary target attack, but it is still secret for most of the world. This provides primary target with opportunity to strike collateral area in attackers domain with same weapon this time reverse engendered from primary attack artifacts and traces. How this can be prevented or controled from primary attacker viewpoint ? One method is mimic the medicine and use "vaccination" process, this is the timely exposure of the attack weapon to its collateral area. Result is that collateral area is exposed, damaged a bit and effectively vaccinated to effects of weapon primary used. Looks very much like not petya events ..

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