Stuxnet to Sunburst: 20 Years of Digital Exploitation and Cyber Warfare

Stuxnet to Sunburst takes the reader on a journey from the terrorist attacks of 9/11 onwards and the massive insatiable appetite, focus, and investment by the Five Eyes agencies, in particular the US, to build capability of digital eavesdropping and industrial espionage. $trillions and tens, moving to hundreds of thousands of staff, many contractors draining the country of intelligence and technical capability. The quest was simple, the outcome horrifying... No one in the world has joined all the dots up, until now.

This book covers how, from digital eavesdropping and manipulation of the agencies to Stuxnet the world's first use of digital code and digital certificates for offensive purposes against the Iranians and their Nuclear Power facilities to cause collateral damage. Proceeding to today's Solarwinds attack, codenamed Sunburst, where the same methods of exploitation and manipulation originally used by the agencies are now being used against companies, and governments to devastating effect.

The Solarwinds breach has caused knock on breaches to thousands of client companies including the US government and is estimated to cost in excess of $1trillion. The monster has truly been turned against its creator and due to the lack, and oversight of security and defence, breaches are occurring at a daily alarming rate. The US and UK governments have little, to no answer. The book also contains chapter on breaches within the Covid-19 sector from research to immunisation and the December 2020 devastating breach of Solarwinds.