The big worry in Washington right now isn’t simply what Iran might do—but what other countries, specifically Russia or North Korea or even China, could do and then blame Iran
-led global conflict, including everything from things blowing over to World War III , the skirmish that is most probable, and the one Americans should be most worried about, would take place in cyberspace. The potential for an army of computers to produce deadly results is very real. Power grids could be shut down for days, or weeks, or indefinitely. The stock market could be knocked offline or sent into free fall by hackers.
that “Iran maintains a robust cyber program and can execute cyber attacks against the United States. Iran is capable, at a minimum, of carrying out attacks with temporary disruptive effects against critical infrastructure in the United States.” Not that Americans should necessarily brace for a full-scale cyber-onslaught from Iran. “Russia’s illicit cyber-activities are about influencing conflict; China’s cyber-activities are all about growing their economy; with Iran, it’s strictly about geopolitics, and about the facility related to the country’s black market,” explained the former State Department official.
To understand just how catastrophic a successful cyberattack could be, you first need to travel back to the Cold War between Russia and America. Back then one of the more terrifying threats was an EMP, or electromagnetic pulse bomb, which could hypothetically knock out the power grids and destroy anything with a computer chip inside. While EMPs are still a major threat , the research the U.S. government has conducted to explore the outcome of such an attack is now being applied to cyber-warfare.
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