To be honest, it shouldn't surprise you that much. Lesser developed nations have heavily invested in drones and cyber since it requires much more capital to invest in other warfare assets.
Despite loosing quickly to Russia, Georgia conducted major cyber-attacks on Russia to try and cripple it's energy, banking, and telecom infrastructure. North Korea is well known for conducting major cyber-based financial thefts in order to help fund the regime. A whole portion of India's economy is built off of over-the-phone scams and internet malware (which can translate into espionage and sabotage).
Because smaller nations can support cyber-warfare with smaller economies, it becomes a valuable asset if they focus on it hard enough.
Somehow the nation that is home to half the worlds tech companies is losing to a bunch of goat hoarders in the cybersecurity arena.
Not only that but you are repeating literal CIA propaganda from the WaPo, which is just one of their front organizations.
Why do I even bother. The OP is Gazerbeam, an Israeli operative.
To be honest, it shouldn't surprise you that much. Lesser developed nations have heavily invested in drones and cyber since it requires much more capital to invest in other warfare assets.
Despite loosing quickly to Russia, Georgia conducted major cyber-attacks on Russia to try and cripple it's energy, banking, and telecom infrastructure. North Korea is well known for conducting major cyber-based financial thefts in order to help fund the regime. A whole portion of India's economy is built off of over-the-phone scams and internet malware (which can translate into espionage and sabotage).
Because smaller nations can support cyber-warfare with smaller economies, it becomes a valuable asset if they focus on it hard enough.