By Ian Whitehurst, barrister at Exchange Chambers
In the chaotic and sometimes lawless world of cyber, a new risk is arising as commercial or private entities realise the potential to weaponise cyber to further their own financial and geo – political interests on the national and international stage.
It is not only governments that are nowadays engaged in acts of cyber war and espionage, there is a growing tendency for businesses and corporations [whether with formal links to their respective States or not] who are keen to be involved in obtaining State and commercial competitors secrets through sophisticated means of hacking, the deployment of malware into systems or even disrupting the financial and economic activities of more dominant players in the market place to their advantage.
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