The bloody war in Yemen has been accompanied by a digital conflict in which combatants have used surveillance and cryptocurrency to their strategic advantage, new research shows. “[T]he dynamics of the Yemeni civil war are manifesting themselves online through a struggle over Yemeni access, use, and control of the internet,” Boston-based Recorded Future wrote in a blog post about the research on Wednesday. As the Yemeni conflict gains greater attention in Washington, the research highlights how cyber operations have become intrinsic to kinetic wars. In Yemen, the internet has become “another front” in a multi-faceted war, according to Recorded Future threat intelligence analyst Allan Liska told CyberScoop, The conflict, which has left tens of thousands people dead and created a widespread famine, has been fought by Houthi rebels, backed by Iran, and the Hadi government, supported by Saudi Arabia. U.S. intelligence, and weapons, have been used by the Saudi-led coalition. The new research […]
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