25 SECURITY FOCUS Cyber Threats
Cyberthreats are all around us. You had better come up with a plan CYBERWAR IS HELL n 8 April 2015, French Words by Neal Romanek
were posted on TV5Monde’s social media. “We were a couple hours from having the whole station gone for good,” said TV5Monde director-general, Yves Bigot, in an interview with the BBC. Something called the ‘Cyber Caliphate’ claimed responsibility and, with the Charlie Hebdo murders in Paris still fresh in people’s minds, the public was only too ready to believe this was the work of ISIS cyberterrorists – despite the shoddy Arabic used in the messaging, which made the claim immediately suspect. It has since been established that the
broadcaster TV5Monde was taken down by a cyberattack. All 12 of the network’s
channels were taken off the air. The carefully targeted attack delivered malware to the broadcaster’s own control systems to try to render them completely and permanently useless. TV5Monde’s regular programming was replaced with the message “Je suIS IS” (mocking the slogan “Je suis Charlie [Hebdo]”), and the alleged ID cards of relatives of French soldiers involved in operations against Islamic State terrorists
DENIS ONUOHA Chief information security officer at Arqiva
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