The Cyber-attacks that come from the foreign governments are considered by the US intelligence as being one of the top priorities of the moment by the US intelligence agencies. There have been mentioned that there are other types cyber threats planed by criminals as well, like ideologically driven hackers and profit minded criminals.
James Clapper, the director of the National intelligence has made public a report that shows Russia’s military is setting ought a cyber-command that will soon carry out attacks on Iran, North Korea and China. Although the forecast of the US intelligence agencies strongly affirmed that the rapidly coming attacks will at first have a low, they will most likely move up to a moderate level. These Russian attacks are believed to generate and impose on the US economic cumulative costs barrier, on the competitiveness and upon the national security.
Cyber attacks represent a deliberate exploitation of computer systems and technology and they are also used for: identity theft, extortion, fraud, breach of access, password sniffing, system infiltration, website defacement, private and public and browser exploits.