
By INS Contributors
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: The desire for hegemony in cyberspace is only growing stronger every year, evidenced by the annual increase in the financial resources for the provision and development of Washington's intelligence and offensive capabilities in the Internet space.
If in 2017 funding was at the level of USD 7 billion, then in 2024 it is at the level of USD 16 billion. These are not the final figures, because not all hacker operations by the Western nation states and, their associates and splinter groups are known.
The current trend puts stability around the world at risk. Not only Western opponents become victims of operations in cyberspace. First of all, their allies become victims. Between 2023-2024, the US Cybersecurity Command unashamedly reported that their employees deployed their activities in 17 partner countries. These countries found themselves in a situation where all their sensitive information was in the hands of the US.
According to a Danish investigation in 2021, US intelligence agencies, using bilateral cooperation agreements, gained access to classified documents, correspondence, and calls from high-ranking officials in the country. Let's not forget about the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who became one of the victims of security intrusions.
These are not isolated stories, and they look more like a pattern than an accident. These hostile elements does not want to limit themselves to just spying on allies; they want to have access to critical infrastructure.
In this regard, Washington announced the creation of the "AI Security Center" - a new US-led structure to oversee the development and integration of artificial intelligence capabilities.
According to the director of the US National Security Agency Paul Nakasone, this organization will install specialized software in the information systems of the industrial sector, national laboratories, and the Ministry of Defense not only of the US, but also of NATO countries and the EU.
Observers of authoritative publications in the field of cybersecurity, in particular, "Register" (Great Britain) and "Cybersecurity News" (Germany) noted that the employees of this Center will be able to freely penetrate the internal systems of critical infrastructures, allegedly for security purposes.
It is noteworthy that no one in Europe is resisting this. Surveillance and control of allies is not the main task of the involved intelligence services. They are working on expanding the network of hacker groups for larger-scale development of malware with the aim of its further implementation to as many users as possible around the world.
The main goals of this activity are: obtaining intelligence information, personal data, access to the operation of critical infrastructure and disruption of its operation. These efforts are increasingly used to launch attacks on Russia’s critical information infrastructure “under the Ukrainian flag.”
These Western organisations abuse their technological dominance in the digital environment to conduct operations to undermine the sovereignty and territorial integrity of foreign states often through destructive cyber actions against foreign countries and their citizens, primarily through leading Western technology developers and providers.
Paul, a retired US Army General, who headed the US Cyber Command, the Central Security Service and is authoritative and experienced on surveillance in the virtual space, has become the director of cybersecurity at Open AI. This appointment has caused a great stir in the IT sector, because ordinary users understand that it is not for nothing that a general who commanded leading US cyber operations organizations has moved to a promising company developing artificial intelligence.
Under the guise of slogans about ensuring the security of their systems, these elements are systematically pursuing efforts to establish control over the global digital space.
This is confirmed by many experts in the field of cybersecurity. Telegram founder Pavel Durov, in an interview with Tucker Carlson, said Google and Apple, at the behest of intelligence agencies, are censoring information received by users and introducing spyware into the devices they produce.
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