... the United States Cyber Command carried out a cyberattack against Iranian units that were allegedly involved in the
attacks
on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman the previous week, even though the United States provided no evidence to support its claim.
Cyberattacks and International Law
Anastasia Tolstukhina:
Two Cyber Resolutions Are Better Than None
The legitimacy of the attack, like many others, is questionable. Similarly, international legal proceedings have yet to be launched against the United States in connection ...
... and security.
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Today, however, risks have become a harsh reality — states not only use technology for intelligence and military superiority, but also commit illegal acts, the assessment of which is ambiguous from the point of the application of international law, since the mechanism for such cases has not yet been developed. Nevertheless, states don’t stand away from threatening with the use force in response to cyberattacks. While the problems of reliable technical attribution of cyberattacks have not been solved, we observe cases of political attribution of incidents. The UK National Cyber Security Center released a report in early October that provides information ...
