Amazon warns of global rise in specialized cyber-enabled kinetic targeting

Amazon said the lines between cyberattacks and physical, real-world attacks are blurring quickly — prompting the tech giant to call for a new category of warfare: cyber-enabled kinetic targeting. 

Nation-states have combined and understood how logical systems and the physical world interact for a long time, but more non-traditional attackers are showcasing expertise in using cyberattacks to enable and amplify the impact of kinetic military operations, according to Amazon Threat Intelligence.

“The collective industry and our customers have to really pay attention to this and change the way we’re doing things,” Steve Schmidt, chief security officer at Amazon, told CyberScoop in a phone interview. “Physical and digital security cannot be treated as separate domains with separate domains and approaches.”

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