Cyber capabilities are now a potent instrument of national power. This fact was dramatized last month when hackers shut down the Colonial Pipeline, which supplies almost half of the motor fuel consumed on the U.S. east coast, for five days. The hackers, according to U.S. officials, were from a Russian ransomware group named DarkSide, which successfully received payment from U.S. authorities.
A new study published by the IISS said that China is on a trajectory to reach parity with the U.S. as a “tier one” cyber power in about a decade. © Reuters
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