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Fancy Bear, cybertrusselen og den operasjonelle koden

Hoffart, Vilma Sofie LU (2022) UNDK02 20212
Department of Political Science
Abstract
This study aims to examine how NATO-states overtly responds to cyberattacks committed by the believed Russian government sponsored hacker group Fancy Bear. After the end of the Cold War the regulation and acceptance for different kinds of covert actions changed in turn with the change in global power dynamics. The current digital environment develops new ways in which states can spy, gather information and conduct different kinds of covert actions against each other. The group Fancy Bear is one of these “new” developments and an actor that became widely known to the public during the leakage of Hillary Clintons emails that may or may not have damaged her chances of presidency. By examining how the elite responds to covert action front... (More)
This study aims to examine how NATO-states overtly responds to cyberattacks committed by the believed Russian government sponsored hacker group Fancy Bear. After the end of the Cold War the regulation and acceptance for different kinds of covert actions changed in turn with the change in global power dynamics. The current digital environment develops new ways in which states can spy, gather information and conduct different kinds of covert actions against each other. The group Fancy Bear is one of these “new” developments and an actor that became widely known to the public during the leakage of Hillary Clintons emails that may or may not have damaged her chances of presidency. By examining how the elite responds to covert action front stage this study finds how the operational code is conducted. This study finds that the larger states examined (USA and Germany) responds with sanctions and a thorough investigation of the attack, but the smaller states examined here; Czech Republic and Norway, responds with official statements that publicly blames Russia for the attacks. There seems to be a practice of naming and shaming the perpetrator for this kind of attacks, and the main findings is that the acceptance for cyberattacks is overtly high because of the somewhat vague responds in spite of large breach in security and information theft. (Less)
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author
Hoffart, Vilma Sofie LU
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course
UNDK02 20212
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Fancy Bear, ATP28, Covert operations, NATO
language
Norwegian
id
9077514
date added to LUP
2022-04-06 08:38:16
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2022-04-06 08:38:16
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  abstract     = {{This study aims to examine how NATO-states overtly responds to cyberattacks committed by the believed Russian government sponsored hacker group Fancy Bear. After the end of the Cold War the regulation and acceptance for different kinds of covert actions changed in turn with the change in global power dynamics. The current digital environment develops new ways in which states can spy, gather information and conduct different kinds of covert actions against each other. The group Fancy Bear is one of these “new” developments and an actor that became widely known to the public during the leakage of Hillary Clintons emails that may or may not have damaged her chances of presidency. By examining how the elite responds to covert action front stage this study finds how the operational code is conducted. This study finds that the larger states examined (USA and Germany) responds with sanctions and a thorough investigation of the attack, but the smaller states examined here; Czech Republic and Norway, responds with official statements that publicly blames Russia for the attacks. There seems to be a practice of naming and shaming the perpetrator for this kind of attacks, and the main findings is that the acceptance for cyberattacks is overtly high because of the somewhat vague responds in spite of large breach in security and information theft.}},
  author       = {{Hoffart, Vilma Sofie}},
  language     = {{nor}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Fancy Bear, cybertrusselen og den operasjonelle koden}},
  year         = {{2022}},
}