Dark World - A Guide to the Global Surveillance Industry: Volume 2: Offensive Cyber

With the advent of US Cyber Command's "defend forward" doctrine in September 2018, offensive cyber, the practice of so-called "ethical hacking," has come out in the open. In response to attacks by Russian, Chinese, Iranian and North Korean offensive cyber teams, US CYBERCOM is now fighting back, with the power to identify hackers at the source and out them to the public. But many key facts remain overlooked. The U.S. Intelligence Community has been actively engaged in offensive cyber for years. Moreover, the vast majority of this work is conducted by a "shadow government" of U.S. private contractors, companies that provide 80 percent of the nation's most skilled cyber experts. The same model holds true worldwide. All nations with access to the right technology hack one another, and most rely on the private sector to develop and deploy advanced offensive cyber. Surveillance is a business. Dark World - Volume 2 - Offensive Cyber takes you inside this secret universe, explaining the diverse technologies used and revealing the principal players in the U.S. and other nations.