Security News > 2021 > April > Nation-state cyber attacks could lead to cyber conflict
New HP-sponsored report finds significant increase in nation-states targeting enterprises to steal high-value IP. A new report from HP released Thursday, Nation States, Cyberconflict and the Web of Profit, found that nation-state cyber attacks are "Moving us closer to a point of advanced cyber conflict."
"Nation-state conflict doesn't take place in a vacuum; as evidenced by the fact enterprise is the most common victim within those attacks analyzed," Ian Pratt, global head of Security for Personal Systems at HP, said in a statement.
McGuire, who looked at over 200 cybersecurity incidents associated with nation-states since 2009, found that enterprise-class organizations are now the most common target, followed by cyber defense, media and communications, government bodies and regulators and critical infrastructure.
"Attempts to obtain IP data on vaccines and attacks against software supply chains demonstrate the lengths to which nation-states are prepared to go to achieve their strategic goals."
Supply chain attacks such as the SolarWinds hack increased 78% in 2019.Between 2017 and 2020 there were 27 software supply-chain attacks associated with nation-state actors.
Nation-states are recruiting cybercriminals to conduct attacks.