A computer worm that was discovered in June 2010. It was designed to attack industrial programmable logic controllers (PLCs).
Published in Chapter:
Analysis of Possible Future Global Scenarios in the Field of Cyber Warfare: National Cyber Defense and Cyber Attack Capabilities
Flavia Zappa Leccisotti (Security Brokers SCpA, Italy), Raoul Chiesa (Security Brokers SCpA, Italy), and Daniele De Nicolo (Security Brokers SCpA, Italy)
Copyright: © 2016
|Pages: 24
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8793-6.ch009
Abstract
At a global level, various risks have increased due to the intensification of globalization, and in this scenario Cybercrime is becoming a more important and dangerous threat. When discussing about Cyber Space threats, it is not an issue if critical national infrastructures, private companies and private citizens will be violated, but rather when it will take place, when it is realized that this has happened, and which is the extent of the attack. Through the collection and analysis of open source documents, institutional organizations, think tanks, academic and experts' papers, the goal of this chapter is to highlight and understand what and how it is changing, if new scenarios will take place on the international cyber chessboard, and which dynamics will regulate the new threats that we must prepare to fight or, at least, mitigate.