I really don’t like the term “cyber-war”, but what else are you going to call it when nations are weaponizing exploits to infiltrate other nations?
When unleashed into the wild, exploits can wreak havoc. A zero-day Java exploit was used by unknown hackers allegedly linked to China toย penetrate Apple and Facebook’s internal systems. Zero-day exploits obtained fromย Gamma Group, a British โtechnical surveillance and monitoring group,โ were allegedly used to sneak powerful surveillance software onto the computers of Egyptian, Bahraini, Ethiopian, and Malaysian dissidents.