The ongoing hybrid war between Russia and Ukraine is an alarming example of how the future threat landscape could be shaped. The war is an example of how a battle is fought with guns and artillery alongside cyberspace. Both sides display the effects of hacktivism by executing a series of malware to destroy their enemies and a plethora of computers and information. Russia used wiper malware in Ukraine months before the actual conflict began.
The example is not of a single person but of how future wars between nations could play out. In these future wars, threat actors would play a more significant role than the state’s defense by harming the enemy nation by catapulting malware, DDOS attacks, phishing, and ransomware, resulting in financial and informational destruction.
Adding the activities of the nation-state actors with the malicious groups and individual threat actors, you can see how the attacks are compounding at an astounding level every financial quarter. In Q1, 2022-23, we noticed the countrywide Infection rates soar. The chart mentioned above is a piece of evidence showcasing the gross picture.
