Nation State hacking gets little attention outside of when stupid mistakes are made (Stuxnet springs to mind), but is still prevalent. An op-ed by Adam Segal in NY Times has a good update on the recent activities in the Middle East, focusing on the alleged UAE hacking’s into Qatar news ond government systems. As was noted by Peter G. Neumann, this is not the first time we have seen this lately. Recent highlights include:
August 2012: India accused Pakistani hackers of trying to provoke sectarian violence.
June 2017: Hackers believed to be tied to the Vietnamese government stole and released transcripts of talks been the Philippine and U.S. presidents, with the suspected hope of pressuring Duterte and sabotaging Philippine relations with China.