The Port of Nagoya, the largest and busiest port in Japan, has been targeted in a ransomware attack that currently impacts the operation of container terminals.
At what point do nations start treating these attacks as terrorism? Attacking vital infrastructure in this way should be more than a few years in prison.
Terrorism is violence for political reasons. This attack isn’t violent and we don’t know why it was committed yet. Being ransomware, it’s likely it was purely to scam money, rather than influence politics. A crime isn’t elevated to terrorism when it’s bad enough.
As far as we know, this wasn’t made for political reasons. I just don’t see what benefit there is to calling a crime something it’s not. What they did was already extremely bad and very illegal. But it wasn’t an act of terrorism (as far as we know).
At what point do nations start treating these attacks as terrorism? Attacking vital infrastructure in this way should be more than a few years in prison.
Terrorism is violence for political reasons. This attack isn’t violent and we don’t know why it was committed yet. Being ransomware, it’s likely it was purely to scam money, rather than influence politics. A crime isn’t elevated to terrorism when it’s bad enough.
I’d argue when they hit hospitals and major infrastructure, it should count. Politics go back to control and money anyway.
As far as we know, this wasn’t made for political reasons. I just don’t see what benefit there is to calling a crime something it’s not. What they did was already extremely bad and very illegal. But it wasn’t an act of terrorism (as far as we know).