This creates considerable difficulties in establishing cyber deterrence. There is a tacit understanding that as long as cyber criminals do not attack those countries, they will be allowed to operate.
Many groups, with names like DarkSide, are based in the former Soviet Union. Groups of cyber criminals attack daily, causing incalculable financial damage.
Fast, sleek longships could stealthily deploy alongside the coasts of early medieval England and France, striking at wealthy, isolated targets and departing before local authorities could mount a response.Ī similar scene plays out today online. Starting from the first recorded raid on the monastery of Lindisfarne in 793, Viking raids presented European rulers with an unprecedented challenge.
