Attribution in cyberspace: Beyond the “whodunnit”

January 17, 2018

“The UK government judges that the Russian government, specifically the Russian military, was responsible for the destructive NotPetya cyber-attack. We call upon Russia to be the responsible member of the international community it claims to be rather then secretly trying to undermine it”, stated Lord Tariq Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Foreign Office Minister of State, in early 2018.1 NotPetya was easily one of the most devastating cyberattacks in recent times, affecting Europe, Asia, and the Americas. The attack was estimated to have cost businesses almost $1.2 billion.2 The NotPetya virus encrypted the hard drive of infected computers and was primarily seen as a Russian state-sponsored cyberattack masquerading as ransomware. The United Kingdom was joined by the United States and Australia in publicly attributing NotPetya to the Russian military3.

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