The world entered the year 2023 with the new term ‘Polycrisis’ by historian Adam Tooze. Foreign government hackers could shut down global IT this year.
Also there is possibility of asteroid attack on earth in 2023, where many people think that aliens may come to earth.
Professor Roel Bitsma of the Department of Macroeconomics of the University of Amsterdam said this on the issue of world security in 2023.
About half of security analysts think a rogue artificial intelligence program that cannot be stopped will cause significant damage to their country, he told news agency AFP, although, encouragingly, this proportion has dropped significantly since last year. Now it is down 15 percentage points. In such a situation, hackers from foreign governments can shut down global IT.
Analysts have brought forward the experience of 2015 behind the thinking. That year, Russian hackers were accused of cyberattacks on Ukraine’s power grid. Almost two years later, Russia was accused of spreading the infamous NotPetya malware through a Ukrainian accounting software. This malware spread globally very quickly. It caused billions of dollars in losses to various businesses around the world.
Experts say the year 2023 will bring more evolved ransomware, a blow to cybersecurity, and more trends, some old and some new.
Attention can be paid to the news of CNN, where it was said in March of last year that the US government has issued a high alert to its various organizations and companies after Russia attacked Ukraine. Most of the cyber attacks that have hit the country in the past few years have been the work of Russian hackers.
Cyber attacks from Russian government-affiliated hacker groups against Ukraine will continue into 2023, MIT Technology Review says. Miles Hutchinson, Jumio CISO, said he believes more foreign governments will employ third-party hackers to target other countries. In the coming years, we can expect military groups around the world to rely on expert hackers to attack other countries’ critical infrastructure and operations. To protect themselves against politically motivated cyber attacks, both public and private organizations will develop robust networks.
Meanwhile, cyber security expert Matt Kunji said that by hacking Google Home’ smart speaker, it is possible to eavesdrop on the user’s conversation. He also received a $100,000 reward from Google for identifying bugs in smart speakers. In April 2022, Google solved the bug problem by introducing ‘invite only’ connection system. However, many smart speaker buyers are at risk of hacking as the firmware is not yet updated.
On the other hand, after NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft successfully hit an asteroid 6.8 million miles away from Earth at supersonic speed, the asteroid has already spread thousands of kilometers of debris into space. Scientists are now investigating whether the trajectory of the asteroid has changed after the impact of the NASA spacecraft.
The asteroid, approximately 160 meters wide, has been named Dimorphos. NASA’s Dart spacecraft, which was launched from Earth ten months ago, successfully hit the asteroid on September 26 and was destroyed.
This technique of changing the trajectory of dangerous asteroids for Earth is named kinetic impactor technique. NASA scientists say it may take several months to measure the extent of the dimorphos’ trajectory change.