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In 2008, the United States Department of Defense was infected with malware. Described at the time as the "worst breach of U.S. military computers in history", the defense against the attack was named "Operation Buckshot Yankee". It led to the creation of the United States Cyber Command. [1] [2] [3]
It represents one of the first widely known cyber espionage campaigns in world history. It was even classified as an Advanced Persistent Threat after two years of constant assault. The investigators claimed that if all the information stolen was printed out and stacked, it would be three times the height of the Washington Monument , which is ...
As a result, a United States grand jury indicted Nikulin and three unnamed co-conspirators on charges of aggravated identity theft and computer intrusion. August 15: Saudi Aramco is crippled by a cyber warfare attack for months by malware called Shamoon. Considered the biggest hack in history in terms of cost and destructiveness.
Jonathan Joseph James (December 12, 1983 – May 18, 2008) was an American hacker (a gray hat ethical hacker) who was the first juvenile incarcerated for cybercrime in the United States. [1] The South Florida native was 15 years old at the time of the first offense and 16 years old on the date of his sentencing.
A cyberattack is any type of offensive maneuver employed by individuals or whole organizations that targets computer information systems, infrastructures, computer networks, and/or personal computer devices by various means of malicious acts usually originating from an anonymous source that either steals, alters, or destroys a specified target by hacking into a susceptible system.
June 1986 – Jonathan Jay Pollard, a United States Naval civilian intelligence analyst was convicted on one count of spying for Israel, receiving a life sentence with a recommendation against parole. August 1988 – Clyde Lee Conrad, a member of the United States military was arrested for selling NATO defense plans to Hungary from 1974 to 1988 ...
In September 2013, the United States Naval Academy will offer undergraduate students the opportunity, to major in Cyber Operations for the United States. [56] Fleet Cyber Command is an operating force of the United States Navy responsible for the Navy's cyber warfare programs. [57] Tenth Fleet is a force provider for Fleet Cyber Command. [58]
Markus Hess is a German hacker who was active in the 1980s. Alongside Dirk Brzezinski and Peter Carl, [1] Hess hacked into networks of military and industrial computers based in the United States, Europe and East Asia, and sold the information to the Soviet KGB for US$54,000.