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From Cold War to Gray War: Internet Conflict Intensifying

Jamie Dettmer

   A former top security adviser to Boris Johnson has revealed that
   Britain has launched recently a series of covert cyber-based attacks on
   Russian leaders and their interests to "impose a price greater than one
   they might have expected" for their cyber-offensive against the West.'¯

   Other allied powers, including the U.S., are doing so, too, say Western
   intelligence officials in what is becoming a "like-for-like"
   cyber-conflict with the Kremlin in the so-called the "gray space," the
   gap between normal state relations and armed conflict.

   "The fact you don't see that we use it doesn't mean we don't, because
   we wouldn't necessarily talk about those things," said Mark Sedwill,
   until recently Britain's top civil servant and national security
   adviser to Britain's Boris Johnson. But in an interview with The Times
   newspaper, Sedwill underscored that Britain is using its cyber-offense
   capabilities to retaliate for Russian cyberattacks, information warfare
   and disruption campaigns.

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