Russian Foreign Ministry cyber chief Artur Lyukmanov warned Newsweek of 'full-fledged interstate confrontation' with 'the use of conventional means of warfare.'
The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry's cybersecurity division has warned that a failure for nations to establish rules of digital engagement could lead to real-world conflict and devastation.First Committee on Disarmament and International Security approached Friday, Moscow and Washington remained at odds over a range of issues, including efforts to find common ground on the use of information communication technologies .
"We are striving to reach such an understanding that governments and their competent agencies could directly investigate cyberincidents putting aside unsubstantiated assessments," he added."Ideally, ICTs should be used for their intended purpose—as a means of communication, storage and transfer of useful and creative knowledge—for development, not destruction."
As to where such subversive activity could take place, Lyukmanov pointed out that"the dangers lurk in the disruption of the functioning of vital infrastructure—government agencies, energy and industrial sectors, transport and logistics chains." "Based on its unprovoked and unjustified attack on Ukraine, and its use of cyber tools in the context of that conflict, we can only assume that the Russian government's true goal is to design a framework all other states abide by but which it will ignore," the U.S. official said.
And yet shaping"rules of the road" for technology and cybersecurity among other fields was included as an objective for the White House in the National Security Strategy released last month. The document emphasized just how important and vulnerable critical infrastructure is, accusing Moscow specifically of pursuing illicit online behavior to targeting the U.S.
And it too charged Russia with waging"cyber and information operations" against the U.S. and its allies. To defend against such tactics, the document said it"will conduct cyberspace operations to degrade competitors' malicious cyber activity and to prepare cyber capabilities to be used in crisis or conflict," while seeking to"carefully evaluate and manage escalation risks.
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