States are leveraging cyberspace expertise to achieve political & security objectives: Harsh Vardhan Shringla

India on Tuesday without naming China asserted that some states are leveraging their expertise in cyberspace to achieve their political and security-related objectives and indulge in contemporary forms of cross-border terrorism.

“The world is already witnessing the use of cyber tools to compromise State security through, inter alia, attacking critical national infrastructure, including health and energy facilities; sometime disrupt social harmony through radicalisation. Open societies have been particularly vulnerable to cyber-attacks and disinformation campaigns,” Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla noted in a Statement at the UN Security Council Open Debate on “Maintenance of International Peace and Security: Cyber Security”