Crowdsourcing Cyber Attacks: Responding to a New Cyber Strategy

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Cyberattacks as a tool of war, conflict, and/or geopolitical competition have exploded over the last decade. In 2015, the Russian cybermilitary unit “Sandworm” exploited vulnerabilities in the Ukrainian power grid to take it completely offline, depriving customers in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast of power for one to six hours. In 2017, over 150 million credit files held by the…