Cipher Brief Cyber Advisory Board: Identifying the “Emerging Hacker”

In the early days of the internet, criminals quickly saw the new technology as an avenue for data theft, extortion, and uninhibited global reach. These criminals found safe haven behind anonymizing technology and governments slow or unwilling to solve the puzzle presented by borderless technology.

The intersection of national security and digital technologies quickly rose to the level of great power politics between established governments in Russia, China, France, the UK, and the United States, where adversaries seek to steal military, political, and sometimes economic secrets from one another. Countries like Iran and North Korea have also turned to cyberspace for its asymmetric utility and escalatory ambiguity.

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