Cyber Risk, Intellectual Property Theft and Cyberwarfare by Ruth Taplin

Author:Ruth Taplin [Taplin, Ruth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Law, Intellectual Property, General, Social Science, Ethnic Studies, Regional Studies
ISBN: 9780429841972
Google: uA0HEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-11-12T03:52:13+00:00

The role of Cyber Command

To cope and counter very serious cyberwarfare attacks including potential and actual physical infrastructural ones and political ones to do with subsequent elections, the US Cyber Command was given legal sweeping powers to deal with the Russian cyber threat. In August 2018, President Trump signed a much-anticipated executive order named National Security Presidential Memorandum 13. The essence of this Congress-generated executive order was that Cyber Command would be enabled to carry out all types of countermeasures that also included infiltrating foreign networks without presidential approval. This was a practical move as US computer networks were under such intensive attack that the Cyber Command required unfettered access to the foreign networks, such as the Russians’ in this case to speedily counter such cyber intrusions into all areas of American life. Congress authorised this freedom of action as Cyber Command was viewed as part of the regular military, which included cyberspace, and their work was to be viewed as carrying out ordinary patrols.

Once given the authority, the Cyber Command attacked the Russian intelligence units responsible for the bulk of the US election hacking. During the time of the subsequent mid-term elections, they also shut down the Internet Research Agency in St Petersburg, which had been responsible for designing disinformation social media ads such as those that were found on Facebook.

Cyber Command also targeted the GRU, the Russian military intelligence responsible for breaking into the DNC making their private data public. They also sent text messages to Russian hackers and officials warning them that they knew who they were and where to find them if they continued to make trouble for US elections and politics in general. Much of this action was made public.

There is a good deal of discussion and concern of the role Russia will play in influencing the 2020 US elections. Will they exploit the COVID-19 pandemic to boost the fortunes of incumbent Trump? Will the Russian intelligence service SVR, the counterpart to the US primary intelligence agency the CIA, become more involved in the US election disinformation campaign than the Russian military intelligence agency, the GRU? As it was the GRU that was caught meddling in the 2016 elections, perhaps the more skilled SVR will take the lead? Such political intelligence movements have direct implications for the extent and success of IP theft as outlined in this chapter and the use of cyberattack as a means for military domination in the increasing move towards cyberwarfare.11

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