List of articles

__NUMBEREDHEADINGS__ This page serves as the equivalent of a table of contents in a printed book. It contains an updated list of all substantive articles in the Toolkit.

About the project

 * Main page
 * FAQ
 * Note on the structure of articles


 * Glossary
 * Short form citation
 * Bibliography
 * People

Scenarios

 * Scenario 01: Election interference
 * Scenario 02: Political espionage
 * Scenario 03: Power grid
 * Scenario 04: International organizations
 * Scenario 05: Criminal investigation
 * Scenario 06: Enabling State
 * Scenario 07: Hacking tools
 * Scenario 08: Certificate authority
 * Scenario 09: Economic espionage
 * Scenario 10: Cyber weapons
 * Scenario 11: Surveillance tools
 * Scenario 12: Computer data
 * Scenario 13: Armed conflict
 * Scenario 14: Ransomware campaign
 * Scenario 15: Cyber deception
 * Scenario 16: High seas
 * Scenario 17: Collective responses
 * Scenario 18: Cyber operators
 * Scenario 19: Hate speech
 * Scenario 20: Medical facilities
 * Scenario 21: Misattribution
 * Scenario 22: Methods of warfare
 * Scenario 23: Vaccine research
 * Scenario 24: Internet blockage

General international law

 * Applicability of international law
 * Jurisdiction
 * State responsibility
 * Attribution
 * State organs
 * Non-State actors
 * Evidence
 * Responsibility of a State for the conduct of another State
 * Mistake of fact
 * Breach of an international obligation
 * Responses and justifications
 * Circumstances precluding wrongfulness
 * Consent
 * Self-defence (state responsibility)
 * Countermeasures
 * Force majeure
 * Distress
 * Plea of necessity
 * Retorsion
 * Targeted restrictive measures
 * Due diligence
 * Sovereignty
 * Prohibition of intervention
 * Prohibition of genocide
 * Transboundary harm
 * Voluntary, non-binding norms of responsible state behavior
 * Cyber operations not per se regulated by international law
 * Peacetime cyber espionage

Specialised regimes of peacetime international law

 * Diplomatic and consular law
 * Law of the sea
 * Flag State jurisdiction
 * Freedom of navigation
 * Sovereign immunity
 * Maritime law enforcement
 * Air law
 * Space law
 * International telecommunication law
 * International human rights law
 * International criminal law
 * Crime of genocide
 * Crimes against humanity
 * War crimes

Use of force, conflict and international law

 * Peaceful settlement of disputes
 * International law on the use of force (jus ad bellum)
 * Armed attack
 * Self-defence
 * International humanitarian law (jus in bello)
 * Conflict qualification
 * International armed conflict
 * Non-international armed conflict
 * Conduct of hostilities


 * Military objectives
 * Data as a military objective
 * The notion of ‘attack’ under international humanitarian law
 * Combatancy
 * Direct participation in hostilities
 * Attacks against persons
 * Means and methods of cyber warfare
 * Perfidy and ruses of war
 * Misuse of established indicators
 * Legal review of cyber weapons
 * Specially protected persons, objects, and activities
 * Protection of medical units during armed conflict
 * Occupation
 * Neutrality

Real-world examples

 * 2021
 * Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack (2021)
 * Health Service Executive ransomware attack (2021)
 * Microsoft Exchange Server data breach (2021)


 * 2020
 * African Union headquarters hack (2020)
 * Brno University Hospital ransomware attack (2020)
 * SolarWinds (2020)
 * 2019
 * Cyber interference against vessels in the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman (2019)
 * Iranian internet blackout (2019)
 * Israeli attack against Hamas cyber headquarters in Gaza (2019)
 * Russia's sovereign internet (2019 onward)
 * Texas Municipality ransomware attack (2019)
 * 2018
 * African Union headquarters hack (2018)
 * Olympic Destroyer (2018)
 * SamSam ransomware incidents (2018)
 * 2017
 * Ethiopian surveillance of journalists abroad (2017)
 * French presidential election leak (2017)
 * Hate speech in India (since 2017)
 * Operation Cloudhopper (2017)
 * NotPetya (2017)
 * Triton (2017)
 * WannaCry (2017)
 * Wu Yingzhuo, Dong Hao and Xia Lei indictment (2017)
 * 2016
 * DNC email leak (2016)
 * Industroyer – Crash Override (2016)
 * Operation Glowing Symphony (2016)
 * The Shadow Brokers publishing the NSA vulnerabilities (2016)
 * 2015
 * Bundestag Hack (2015)
 * Office of Personnel Management data breach (2015)
 * Power grid cyberattack in Ukraine (2015)
 * The Hacking Team Hack (2015)
 * 2014
 * Chinese PLA Unit 61398 indictments (2014)
 * Sony Pictures Entertainment attack (2014)
 * Steel mill in Germany (2014)
 * Ukrainian parliamentary election interference (2014)
 * 2012
 * Shamoon (2012)
 * 2011
 * Caucasus internet outage (2011)
 * Syria’s ‘social media war’ (since 2011)
 * DigiNotar (2011)
 * 2010
 * Hate speech in Myanmar (since early 2010s)
 * Stuxnet (2010)
 * SuperMicro supply chain breach (since 2010)
 * 2008
 * Georgia-Russia conflict (2008)
 * Bangladesh internet outage (2008)
 * 2007
 * Cyber attacks against Estonia (2007)
 * Operation Orchard/Outside the Box (2007)

National positions

 * Australia (2020)
 * Brazil (2021)
 * Czech Republic (2020)
 * Estonia (2019 and 2021)
 * Finland (2020)
 * France (2019)
 * Germany (2021)
 * Iran (2020)
 * Israel (2020)
 * Japan (2021)
 * Kazakhstan (2021)
 * Kenya (2021)
 * Netherlands (2019)
 * New Zealand (2020)
 * Norway (2021)
 * Romania (2021)
 * Russia (2021)
 * Singapore (2021)
 * Switzerland (2021)
 * United Kingdom (2018 and 2021)
 * United States (2012, 2016 and 2020)

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