NATO agrees cyberattack could trigger military response
NATO leaders agreed on Friday that a large-scale cyberattack on a member country could be considered an attack on the entire US-led alliance, potentially triggering a military response.
The decision marks an expansion of the organisation's remit, reflecting new threats that can disable critical infrastructure, financial systems and government without firing a shot.
"Today we declare that cyber defence is part of NATO's core task of collective defence," NATO secretary-general Anders Fogh Rasmussen told a news conference.
In 2007, a series of crippling cyber attacks paralysed much of NATO member Estonia in an apparent response to a dispute over the movement of a Soviet-era war memorial. Most Western experts suspected the Kremlin was responsible but Russia denied it.
The decision marks an expansion of the organisation's remit, reflecting new threats that can disable critical infrastructure, financial systems and government without firing a shot.
"Today we declare that cyber defence is part of NATO's core task of collective defence," NATO secretary-general Anders Fogh Rasmussen told a news conference.
In 2007, a series of crippling cyber attacks paralysed much of NATO member Estonia in an apparent response to a dispute over the movement of a Soviet-era war memorial. Most Western experts suspected the Kremlin was responsible but Russia denied it.
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