{"id":5766,"date":"2017-11-24T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T14:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=5766"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:06:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:06:11","slug":"cyberwarfare-not-there-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2017\/11\/24\/cyberwarfare-not-there-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"U-M researchers: Cyberwarfare &#8220;not quite there yet&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Based on evidence from wartime cyber-campaigns in Ukraine and Syria, U-M researchers\u00a0<strong>Yuri M. Zhukov<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Nadiya Kostyuk\u00a0<\/strong>believe that\u00a0North Korea&#8217;s cyber-capabilities would not be very effective as a \u201cforce multiplier\u201d to conventional military systems in a conflict with the U.S. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/monkey-cage\/wp\/2017\/11\/21\/would-cyberattacks-be-likely-in-a-u-s-north-korea-conflict-heres-what-we-know\/?utm_term=.76ceed625e39\">recent article for the &#8220;Washington Post&#8221;<\/a>, Zhukov (assistant professor of political science and faculty associate at the Institute for Social Research) and Kostyuk (a fellow at Harvard&#8217;s Belfer Center and PhD candidate at U-M) write that North Korea is unlikely to successfully employ cyberattacks in tandem with conventional military operations because of its reliance on China for internet service, its fear of retaliation, and the inherent difficulty in synchronizing cyber- and military operations.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5769\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5769\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5769\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/3268871691_e493377429_z.jpg\" alt=\"U.S, army personnel at computer stations\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/3268871691_e493377429_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/3268871691_e493377429_z-125x70.jpg 125w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/3268871691_e493377429_z-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5769\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/soldiersmediacenter\/3268871691\/in\/photostream\/\">US Army, Flickr, CC BY 2.0<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on evidence from wartime cyber-campaigns in Ukraine and Syria, U-M researchers\u00a0Yuri M. Zhukov and\u00a0Nadiya Kostyuk\u00a0believe that\u00a0North Korea&#8217;s cyber-capabilities would not be very effective as a \u201cforce multiplier\u201d to conventional military systems in a conflict with the U.S. In a recent article for the &#8220;Washington Post&#8221;, Zhukov (assistant professor of political science and faculty associate at the Institute\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2017\/11\/24\/cyberwarfare-not-there-yet\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[333,387,130],"class_list":["post-5766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-cyberattack","tag-military","tag-research"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/3268871691_e493377429_z.jpg",640,360,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/3268871691_e493377429_z-125x70.jpg",125,70,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/3268871691_e493377429_z-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/3268871691_e493377429_z.jpg",640,360,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/3268871691_e493377429_z.jpg",600,338,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/3268871691_e493377429_z.jpg",640,360,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/3268871691_e493377429_z.jpg",640,360,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/3268871691_e493377429_z-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/3268871691_e493377429_z-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/3268871691_e493377429_z-640x300.jpg",640,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/3268871691_e493377429_z.jpg",640,360,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/3268871691_e493377429_z.jpg",400,225,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Based on evidence from wartime cyber-campaigns in Ukraine and Syria, U-M researchers\u00a0Yuri M. 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