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"Cyberattacks are nothing particularly new to the world and Ukraine had suffered many such attacks by Russia over recent years. Russia was knowingly exploiting Ukraine's digital vulnerabilities as a proving ground for nearly a decade. Malware such as Sandworm and BlackEnergy had caused untold damage to the Ukraine population and government previously and allowed Russia to perfect their cyberattacks for further, more global events. They had been planting cyber Sleeper Digital Cells for years especially in the US and UK. Then, coincidently, the week after the Chinese winter Olympic games had finished, Russia launched an all out cyber offensive against 70 Ukraine government websites and due to these being poorly, and insecurely maintained, toppled one by one causing havoc and disruption to the Ukraine government and critical infrastructure. As Q said in James Bond, ''I can do more damage by breakfast sipping my Earl Grey tea with my keyboard than you ever can in the field.'' Sadly Q was right as we witness daily. The Keyboard and mouse have indeed become mightier than the Sword. The barrage of cyberattacks against Ukraine constitutes the first Cyberwar by one Nation upon another and crossed a very thin red line, a line, that until now often had the hallmarks of a Nation State, but was confined to criminal activity, immaterial of whom the perpetrators were. This however was now WAR. The cyberwar was simply a precursor, the softening of a county that would precede a kinetic war and tens of thousands of people would lose their lives. This war was the first war for nearly 80 years that rang out deathly klaxons across Europe and the world. Digital Blood on Their Hands addresses the issues that the digital world has created. The culpability, causal links and even liabilities that go towards these war crime atrocities. Often too frightening to believe and also too compelling to dismiss. Digital Blood on Their Hands tells a side to the world's first ever cyberwar that you would never otherwise see, or possibly hear about"--

"Cyberattacks are nothing particularly new to the world and Ukraine had suffered many such attacks by Russia over recent years. Russia was knowingly exploiting Ukraine's digital vulnerabilities as a proving ground for nearly a decade. Malware such as Sandworm and BlackEnergy had caused untold damage to the Ukraine population and government previously and allowed Russia to perfect their cyberattacks for further, more global events. They had been planting cyber Sleeper Digital Cells for years especially in the US and UK. Then, coincidently, the week after the Chinese winter Olympic games had finished, Russia launched an all out cyber offensive against 70 Ukraine government websites and due to these being poorly, and insecurely maintained, toppled one by one causing havoc and disruption to the Ukraine government and critical infrastructure. As Q said in James Bond, ''I can do more damage by breakfast sipping my Earl Grey tea with my keyboard than you ever can in the field.'' Sadly Q was right as we witness daily. The Keyboard and mouse have indeed become mightier than the Sword. The barrage of cyberattacks against Ukraine constitutes the first Cyberwar by one Nation upon another and crossed a very thin red line, a line, that until now often had the hallmarks of a Nation State, but was confined to criminal activity, immaterial of whom the perpetrators were. This however was now WAR. The cyberwar was simply a precursor, the softening of a county that would precede a kinetic war and tens of thousands of people would lose their lives. This war was the first war for nearly 80 years that rang out deathly klaxons across Europe and the world. Digital Blood on Their Hands addresses the issues that the digital world has created. The culpability, causal links and even liabilities that go towards these war crime atrocities. Often too frightening to believe and also too compelling to dismiss. Digital Blood on Their Hands tells a side to the world's first ever cyberwar that you would never otherwise see, or possibly hear about"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Stuxnet to Sunburst and Ransomware Development -- Chapter 2 Not Secure, F and 0… -- Chapter 3 Ransomware Lessons Being Learned… -- So, What Has This to Do with Ransomware? -- Chapter 4 Colonial Pipeline and CI Companies -- Is America's Critical National Infrastructure Prepared for the Ongoing Ransomware Siege, and What Can They Do to Avoid It? -- Chapter 5 CNA Ransomware Attack and Cyber Insurance -- Chapter 6 BA, easyJet, and the Travel Industry -- Chapter 7 Destabilising the United States, Courts, Law Enforcement, and Way of Life -- Chapter 8 Deterrence Theory and the Five Eyes Faux Pas -- Chapter 9 Ensuring the Security of Insecurity -- Chapter 10 Traditional Warfare, the Fat Man, Mistakes Made, and Lessons Still Being Learned and Ignored -- Chapter 11 Survivorship Bias -- Chapter 12 Air India Ransomware Faux Pas -- Chapter 13 Most Common Website Vulnerabilities and Attacks -- Cross-Site Scripting -- Injection Attacks -- Man-in-the-Middle Attacks -- Distributed Denial of Service -- Brute Force Attacks -- Phishing -- Third-Party Code -- Zero Day Attacks -- Cookies -- Chapter 14 The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street and the FCA -- Chapter 15 MITRE CWE and Ransom Task Force -- Chapter 16 Critical National Infrastructure: The Collapse of a Nation -- Chapter 17 US State Attacks and the Continued Oversight of Security -- Chapter 18 Conflicts of Interest -- Chapter 19 Innovation and Disbelief -- Chapter 20 Blackbaud, Cyberattacks, and Class Action Lawsuits -- Chapter 21 The World's Largest Global Economic Shift -- Chapter 22 It Is Not Setting Goals Too High, but Setting Them Too Low and Achieving Them -- Chapter 23 Avoiding the Apocalypse.

"Stuxnet to Sunburst: 20 Years of Digital Exploitation and Cyberwarfare takes the reader on a journey from the terrorist attacks of 9/11 onwards and the massive insatiable appetite, focus and investment by the Five Eyes agencies, in particular the U.S., to build capability of digital eavesdropping and industrial espionage. With tens of trillions of dollars moving throughout hundreds of thousands of staff,and many contractors draining the country of intelligence and technical capability, the quest was simple and the outcome horrifying. No one in the world has connected the dots, until now. From digital eavesdropping and manipulation of the agencies to Stuxnet, this book covers how the world's first use of digital code and digital certificates for offensive purposes against the Iranians and their nuclear power facilities, caused collateral damage. Proceeding to today's SolarWinds attack, code-named Sunburst, the same methods of exploitation and manipulation originally used by the agencies are now being used against companies and governments with devastating effects. The solarWinds breach has caused knock-on breaches to thousands of client companies including the U.S. government and is estimated to cost more than one trillion dollars. The monster has truly been turned against its creator and due to the lack of security and defence, breaches are occurring daily at an alarming rate. The U.S. and UK governments have little to no answer. Teh book also contains a chapter on breaches within the COVID-19 sector from research to immunisation and the devastating December 2020 breach of SolarWinds. "--

In May 2021, Jim Gosler, known as the Godfather and commander of US agencies' cyber offensive capability, said, ''Either the Intelligence Community (IC) would grow and adapt, or the Internet would eat us alive.'' Mr Gosler was speaking at his retirement only several months before the terrorist attacks of 9/11. He possibly did not realise the catalyst or the tsunami that he and his tens of thousands of US IC offensive website operatives had created and commenced. Over the last two decades, what Mr Gosler and his army of Internet keyboard warriors created would become the modus operandi for every faceless, nameless, state-sponsored or individual cybercriminal to replicate against an unwary, ill-protected, and ignorant group of executives and security professionals who knew little to nothing about the clandestine methods of infiltration and weaponisation of the Internet that the US and UK agencies led, all in the name of security. This book covers many cyber and ransomware attacks and events, including how we have gotten to the point of massive digital utilisation, particularly during the global lockdown and COVID-19 pandemic, to online spending that will see twice the monetary amount lost to cybercrime than what is spent online. There is little to no attribution, and with the IC themselves suffering cyberattacks, they are all blamed on being sophisticated ones, of course. We are witnessing the undermining of our entire way of life, our economies, and even our liberties. The IC has lots to answer for and unequivocally created the disastrous situation we are currently in. They currently have little to no answer. We need--no, we must demand--change. That change must start by ensuring the Internet and all connections to it are secure and no longer allow easy access and exfiltration for both the ICs and cybercriminals.