A New Form of ‘Amphibious’ Warfare In Cyberspace

Microsoft president Brad Smith gave attendees at Envision UK behind-the-scenes information as to the cyberattacks Russia has launched on Ukraine.

“With cyberattacks, we’re seeing in real time, the evolution of this hybrid war. We’ve seen it more than 200 times; we’ve seen 40 different waves of destructive attacks against hundreds of different targets. What we’ve seen as time has gone on is how events get connected,” he said.

“Within a matter of days, the Russians would go from taking down a network in a nuclear power plant through attacking that nuclear power plant. We would see how they would go from trying to disrupt the network for a city around an airport to then trying to attack and take possession of the airport. We’ve seen that time is free and expand the times down to minutes and hours at times just within a day or two. So this is a new form of amphibious warfare in cyberspace.”