Unpacking Russia's Cyber-Incident Response

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=.frhGMfBpL" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=.frhGMfBpL</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09636412.2024.2391757" target="_blank" >10.1080/09636412.2024.2391757</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Unpacking Russia's Cyber-Incident Response

Original language description

Western states are increasingly holding foreign governments accountable for cyberattacks. They couple public attribution of cyberattacks (PAC) with indictments, sanctions, and collective &quot;naming and shaming&quot; campaigns. Russia, however, while routinely subject to foreign cyber-intrusions, has seemed much less responsive toward these attacks. I argue that Russia&apos;s restraint regarding PAC stems from its desire to maintain the relative impunity of state-sponsored cyberattacks. This strategy stems from Moscow&apos;s technological inferiority to the West and from the strategic benefits of internationally tolerated cybercrime. Despite the harm to Russia, tolerance toward cybercrime helps the Kremlin steal foreign technology, improve its defensive and offensive cyber capabilities, and facilitate covert action against democracies abroad. Merging securitization theory with criminology, I propose a novel theoretical lens to explain this phenomenon and then test it-quantitatively and qualitatively-against a large dataset of Russian-language media reports, forensic investigations, and policy documents. I argue that threat perception of cyberattacks is not a given but rather is contingent upon the material distribution of cyberpower among nations and intrinsic utility of cybercrime as a political tool.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Security Studies

ISSN

0963-6412

e-ISSN

1556-1852

Volume of the periodical

33

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

30

Pages from-to

640-669

UT code for WoS article

001371134800001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85216780511