Cyber ​​war is characterized as a war fought on computers away from the battlefield and conventional weapons, and requires only a keyboard and a computer connected to the Internet, and is considered a low-cost war, as it reveals the future of wars in the world.

It seems that the military war that broke out between Moscow and Kiev last February, was not the actual beginning of this war, according to experts, the war actually started between the two countries in 2015, and was then on the cyber scale.

Experts identify 3 levels of the cyber war between Russia and Ukraine. The first works according to a strategy of disabling servers from working by flooding them with huge requests to enter a specific site within a short time that exceeds the site's capacity.

The second level is false news, through which the website is hacked and false or false news is published or the information that appears on the screen is changed to mislead people and make them believe in its authenticity. to her.

And cybersecurity expert Karim Al-Amouri says that Israel is the most dangerous country that possesses this type of armies that work to destroy sites, and is considered the first country in the world. The third world war will be cyber.

The expert in risk management and cyber security likened the cyber war to nuclear war, for its power in destroying the digital infrastructure of countries, adding that experts describe the excessive use of technology in cyber attacks as a “doomsday” because it will affect all aspects of life.

How did the war on Ukraine start?

In 2017, the cyber war on Ukraine reached its climax, as the “Petya” virus attacked the Ukraine website, which provides services and quickly destroyed the devices that it infected. the information.

Yevgeny Primchuk, Advisor to the Minister of Information Technology Infrastructure of Ukraine, said that the Russian cyber war began in January 2022 with an attack on Ukrainian government and service sites and they were taken out of work, and that was in conjunction with the Russian crowds on the Ukrainian border.

Ukrainian websites were also hit by several cyber attacks that took them out of service and erased all the information they contain. The attacks did not overlook the Ukrainian banking sector, which led to a state of panic among Ukrainians after they could not withdraw their money from banks due to cyber attacks on banks in the country.

In turn, a lecturer in global security, Tim Stephens, stressed that the Russian attacks denied Ukrainians access to government websites, and wrote in them, "The Russians are coming, so beware."

The Ukrainian government received cyber support after the Russian invasion of it by governments and groups not linked to any organizations, which led to the hacking of the Kremlin website, Russia Today channel, and the Russian video site "Rotube" similar to YouTube.

On the other hand, Russian political analyst Andrei Ontikov believes that the accusations leveled at Russia of hacking Ukrainian websites are not far from what he called an organized campaign to promote the Russian cyber threat, claiming that the attacks were not issued by the government, but by groups that only represent themselves.

The cost of cybercrime is expected to reach about $10.5 trillion by 2025, and the cybersecurity industry to reach more than $400 billion by 2027.