"NATO prepares for cyber war"/ Foreign media raise the alarm: Albania considered using Article 5 after the Iranian attacks

Nearly 1,000 cyber professionals from 40 countries took part in NATO's latest major exercise to counter Russian cyber attacks.

Amid the crisis in Ukraine and Russian attacks by Moscow on critical infrastructure and networks, concern is intensifying in the North Atlantic alliance that member countries of the organization prepare for the possibility of cyber warfare and protect their infrastructure.

According to Politico , which publishes an extensive report on the possibility of a cyber war, about 150 specialized NATO cyber officials gathered in Tallinn, Estonia this week to discuss and organize NATO's response to potential cyber attacks. Russian.

This scenario is not impossible as Kiev, in addition to missile attacks, struggles daily to defend itself against ongoing attempts by Russian hackers to breach its critical infrastructure.

"It's clear that these things are actually happening," said Col. Bird Hansen, chief of the cyber division at NATO's Allied Transformation Command.

"The world has never experienced an all-out cyber war in which cyber attacks have been used with the same devastating results as physical attacks, such as disrupting critical services such as electricity and water and preventing their restoration. The situation in Ukraine, however, is on the edge of the cliff.”

In Tallinn, cyber security officials and technical experts from Europe, the US and Japan tried to respond, based on a scenario, to cyber attacks against a certain territory.

The scenario predicted that on November 28, hackers launched a digital attack on an island between Iceland and Norway in an attempt to steal information and "destroy" the power grid.

NATO did not release details on the exercise, which was deemed a success, according to US Marine Col. Charles Eliot, who led the exercise.

The war in Ukraine has raised questions about how NATO would respond to a large-scale cyber attack against a member state that could potentially invoke Article 5.

For example, the government of Albania considered invoking Article 5 this year following a widespread Iranian cyber attack on the country's networks. According to Article 5, a potential attack against a member state is considered an attack against all NATO members.

Vështirësia e mbajtjes së hakerëve jashtë rrjeteve e bën edhe më të rëndësishme praktikimin se si të përgjigjen pasi të kenë depërtuar në rrjete, thonë zyrtarët.

Ata gjithashtu thanë se kanë përfshirë skenarë dhe mësime të nxjerra nga sulmet kibernetike në infrastrukturën e Ukrainës këtë vit, duke përfshirë rrjetet e energjisë elektrike.

Stërvitja u mbajt në Cyber ????Range të NATO-s, një ndërtesë e projektuar dhe hapur në vitin 2021 për të shërbyer si një qendër trajnimi për ekspertët e sigurisë kibernetike të NATO-s se si të koordinojnë dhe përgjigjen ndaj sulmeve si ato tani në Ukrainë.

Ndërtesa u ofron profesionistëve kibernetikë një vendndodhje të sigurt me rrjete kompjuterike autonome që mund të simulojnë fatkeqësitë kibernetike.

The building has unclassified and classified areas and rarely opens its doors to the press in an effort to keep businesses safe. Participants were prohibited from bringing personal devices into the venue.