Of Hackers and Privateers: The Possible Evolution of the Problem of Cyber-Attribution

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14220%2F24%3A00137581" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14220/24:00137581 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://journals.muni.cz/mujlt/article/view/37676" target="_blank" >https://journals.muni.cz/mujlt/article/view/37676</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/MUJLT2024-2-2" target="_blank" >10.5817/MUJLT2024-2-2</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Of Hackers and Privateers: The Possible Evolution of the Problem of Cyber-Attribution

Original language description

The escalating severity of the cyber-attribution problem (a problem with attributing cyberattacks to states that ordered them) poses a significant challenge to international law and cyberspace security. However, amidst worsening international relations, a viable solution remains elusive. To address this predicament, the authors turn to a historical echo of the contemporary practice of employing hacker groups – namely, privateering. After an in-depth examination of this analogy’s suitability, they focus mainly on the factors that contributed to the decline of privateering. Their goal is to uncover parallels potentially applicable to mitigating modern challenges posed by state-sponsored cyberattacks and the exploitation of cyber-attribution problem. Among the key identified factors, the most crucial were the emergence of professional cyber-capacities (akin to post-Napoleonic emergence of professional navies) and the disruption of hackers’ safe havens. The paper concludes by introducing three prospective scenarios reflecting potential pathways for the future of the cyber-attribution challenges.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50501 - Law

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Masaryk University Journal of Law and Technology

ISSN

1802-5943

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

18

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

46

Pages from-to

169-214

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85208804982