TENDINŢE ÎN EVOLUŢIA HACKTIVISMULUI TERORIST
TERRORIST HACKTIVISM DEVELOPMENTS

Summary/Abstract: is constantly under assault. Spies, thieves, cyber saboteurs as well as those who are willing to "break" the computer systems steal personal data and commercial secrets, vandalize websites, disrupt services by sabotaging data, systems, placing viruses to computers and launching worms, and perform fraudulent transactions. Banks and financial systems are a popular target for cybercriminals. The reason is usually a financial one, and perpetrators have stolen or tried to steal tens of millions of dollars. These attacks are facilitated by tools increasingly powerful and easy to use, which are freely available on thousands of websites on the Internet. To that end, hacking activities which until recently have had a social substrate, are gaining political valences and have become a tool used including by terrorist groups. So far, the actual impact of terrorist hacktivism has been small but unequivocally terrorist groups are seeking assistance in cyberspace. Al Qaeda and the Islamic State, the two brands of terrorism, are using now on a daily basis the virtual environment mainly for recruitment and dissemination of radical message. Thus, specific sophisticated hacker attacks are just a step away. It is therefore increasingly important to focus not only on the attackers, but especially on vulnerabilities of critical infrastructures and on the disastrous consequences that a possible attack may have on them. The fact that increasingly more objects are connected to the Internet make them vulnerable to cyber attacks that can be carried out by people recruited online by terrorists who give you the impression that their fight is fair, that they fight against injustice.

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