Cyber Influence Attack: Changes in Cyber Threats Seen in the Russian Hacking Incident

Mookyu Park, Moosung Park, Kyungho Lee

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Abstract

As the Russian government is revealed that it had intervened in the US presidential election by hacking, the social confusion caused by cyber attacks increased. This incident has led to the impeachment of the president by the dismissal of FBI director James Comey. In the French presidential election held in 2017, the social confusion created because of fake news during the period of election silence. The past cyber attacks were used as deception tactics, like the Georgian war. Nowadays, these attacks are concentrated in the period of social issues. In other words, these recent changes in cyber attacks have begun to have an adverse effect on systems in the real world, such as hybrid battlefields. This attack is called cyber influence attacks. This paper identifies the weaknesses of the basic democratic election system and classifies it against cyber influence attacks. In addition, we analyze the cyber influence attacks in Russia during the US presidential election in 2016 as a case study.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInformation Security Applications - 18th International Conference, WISA 2017, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsBrent ByungHoon Kang, Taesoo Kim
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages224-235
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783319935621
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018
Event18th World International Conference on Information Security and Application, WISA 2017 - Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 2017 Aug 242017 Aug 26

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10763 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

Other18th World International Conference on Information Security and Application, WISA 2017
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CityJeju Island
Period17/8/2417/8/26

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Computer Science(all)

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