Speaking at DEFCON to deliver research on “a comprehensive list of Nation-State Big Brothers,” security researcher Eduardo Lzycki said that there had been an increased number of governments both censoring and shutting down online services, as well as acquiring cyber espionage and offensive tools.
Saying that the internet was something that “people gathered around as a common idea without a top down authority,” his research – done with colleague Rodrigo Colli – found that the “most active actor in cyber space is states doing things – attacking – and [conducting] attacks against other states and other groups.”
Drawing from five sources: academia and NGOs, data leaks, censorship and transparency reports, Lzycki said that what they had seen showed that 55% of attacks had some sort of state-sponsored level of attribution, from 402 single APT groups, which includes 19 countries with “a state sponsored threat.” Showing the map below, Lzycki said that that it was interesting to see how diffused the number of actors were.
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