Cyber Weapon Market With its Service & Software 2018

A new ‘cyber’-phrase has emerged recently, adding to the already cluttered glossary of cyber warfare.

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In May, it emerged that the US and UK are collaborating to develop so-called “cyber weapons” to defend their interests in cyber space. Cyber weapons, said the UK’s armed forces minister, are now regarded as “an integral part of the country’s armoury”.

So what is a cyber weapon? The US military has reportedly drafted a classified list of cyber weapons that includes computer viruses and software that can be used to penetrate enemy networks.

Defining these tools as weapons, as opposed to systems or processes, allows the military to apply the same authorisation controls as they apply to conventional weapons such as guns and tanks. For this reason, this is one neologism of the cyber era that at least has a practical purpose.

As for the prefix ‘cyber’, this has long been divorced of its original meaning. It derives from cybernetics, the study of regulatory systems, whose root is the Greek word kybernetes, meaning ‘steersman’.

First let’s try to provide a definition of cyber-weapon, to do this I get inspiration from an article written by experts Thomas Rid and Peter McBurney. Correctly define cyber weapon has significant legal and political consequences as well as the security itself. The line between what is a cyber-weapon and what is not a cyber-weapon is subtle.

But drawing this line is important. For one, it has security consequences: if a tool has no potential to be used as a weapon and to do harm to one or many, it is simply less dangerous.

Secondly, drawing this line has political consequences: an unarmed intrusion is politically less explosive than an armed one. Thirdly, the line has legal consequences: identifying something as a weapon means, at least in principle, that it may be outlawed and its development, possession, or use may be punishable.

It follows that the line between weapon and non-weapon is conceptually significant: identifying something as not a weapon is an important first step towards properly understanding the problem at hand and to developing appropriate responses. The most common and probably the most costly form of cyber-attack aims to spy.

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The two expert define “cyber weapon” as “a computer code that is used, or designed to be used, with the aim of threatening or causing physical, functional, or mental harm to structures, systems, or living beings“

Over the years many cyber weapons have been identified, without a doubt the most famous of which is the virus Stuxnet, and this has led to introduce many different classification for their qualifications.

An interesting classification of cyber weapons is based on spectrum of action, in this scale we introduce the following categories:

Low potential end of the spectrum is a malware able to affect systems from outside but that is not able to penetrate the target or to create a direct harm. To this category tools and software to generate traffic to overload a system create damage to its services with a temporary effect (e.g. Denial of Service attack) without damaging.

Medium potential end of the spectrum, any malicious intrusion we can identify that is not able to influence the final target that is anyway able to create functional and physical damage. In this category are included generic intrusion agent like malware able to rapidly spread.

High potential end of the spectrum is an agent that is capable to penetrate the target avoiding any protection creating a direct harm to the victim. That could be the case of a sophisticated malware that could harm a specific system like the virus Stuxnet. Inside this category we introduce a further distinction between learning agent and intelligent agent. Stuxnet is an intelligent weapon without learning capabilities, maybe this features will be part of next generation of cyber weapons.

Cost and complexity of this cyber threats are related to the category the belong, consider also that behind high potential agents there is a long and considerable content of intelligence used to acquire information on final target and develop the weapon specific for it.

In recent years one of the topics of greatest interest in the international scientific community has been the development of new cyber weapons to use against hostile countries.

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What dominates, without any doubt, was the use of viruses and other malware to attack critical infrastructure of the opponents.
The Stuxnet case did school, for sure behind its development there are government structures, most likely in the U.S. and Israel.

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