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NATO cyber-operations center will be leaning on its members for offensive hacks

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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s cyber-operations command center in Belgium still has a ways to go before its offensive playbook is set in stone, a NATO cyber official involved in the matter told CyberScoop. The Cyberspace Operations Centre was established almost exactly one year ago, in Mons, Belgium to help member nations’ obtain real-time intelligence on and respond to cyberthreats from criminal or nation-state backed hackers. The alliance is still working on pooling member nations’ offensive cyber capabilities for those responses, Deputy Director of the Cyberspace Operations Centre Group Captain Neal Dewar told CyberScoop in an interview. The cyber operations center was created in part to fulfill the alliance’s 2016 decision that under NATO’s Article V, a cyberattack on one member nation may result in a group of members coming to its defense, just as if a physical attack had occurred. But because the alliance does not have its own […]

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Western allies consider offensive cyber warfare agreement as Russia launches plan for ‘independent internet’

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Several Western nations are considering an offensive-minded cyberwarfare initiative meant to fundamentally change the way the countries react to attacks from adversary nations, Reuters reports. The accord would guide the deployment of offensive cyberweapons. The agreement, being hammered out by the Denmark, Germany, Norway, Spain, The Netherlands, United Kingdom and United States, may be solidified by 2019. While all the nations involved are members of NATO, a NATO spokesperson speaking to CyberScoop was careful to point out that this is definitively not a NATO-backed initiative. NATO itself recently announced it will establish new command centers to incorporate the cyber domain into operational planning. The alliance has seen an increasing number of attacks against members and institutions and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg recently said cyber-operations are a potential response any kind of attack against member countries. Irina Novakova, a NATO official, detailed for CyberScoop the alliance’s increasing focus on cyberattacks including the decision that a severe cyberattack could […]

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NATO extends cybersecurity help to Ukraine in wake of cyberattack

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NATO is extending cybersecurity help to the Ukrainian government following last month’s malware attacks that largely targeted Ukrainian institutions. Standing next to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko at a press conference in Kiev on Monday, NATO secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg said the alliance is “in the process of providing Ukraine with new equipment to some key government institutions” that would “help Ukraine investigate who is behind the different attacks.” Poroshenko claimed to “have evidence that a recent cyberattack was also organized by the Russian Federation.” The Ukrainian president said the country’s goal is to join NATO and asked for discussions to expand the 29-member alliance. In response, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Ukraine joining the alliance would “not help strengthen stability and security in Europe.” Just last month, Stoltenberg reiterated that a massive cyberattack against a NATO member nation could trigger a military response according to the alliance’s mutual defense guarantee. The position, held by NATO leadership since […]

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