Vladimir Platov

One of the main areas of the US intelligence services' activity has recently been the enhanced control of the electronic information space, social networks, in particular. Initially, this control was mainly carried out in the form of detecting the so-called "domestic" threats coming from mentally unstable or extremist-minded...

Over the last two and a half years, the adversaries of the current government in Syria who are in close contact with the intelligence services of the USA and other Western countries have been increasingly penetrating into the social networks of this country in order to collect intelligence information...

The last decade, cyberweapons have been actively used in the confrontation between ideologies, nations and states. The term "cyberwar" has been increasingly used not only in journalism and in the rhetoric of political figures, but also in the actions of many states, the USA in particular...