On Topical Issues of Countering Cyberterrorism Threats in the Conditions of Digital Transformation

This scientific work is devoted to the study of the causes of cyberterrorist threats in the context of digital transformation and ways to counter this phenomenon. It has been established that information is the most important attribute of the modern world, when its multivariance is a valuable tool for influencing public consciousness, and scientific and technological progress contributes to its lightning-fast distribution. The objectives of the study are to analyze the causes of cyberterrorist threats in the context of digital transformation. The production and use of information is a key aspect of the development of the socio-political system. The use of the possibilities of digital transformation, as well as computers and information and communication systems in all spheres of human life, is multifaceted and contradictory. On the one hand, such possibilities are a powerful potential for human development while learning, and on the other hand, they are the determinants of cyberterrorism, the consequences of which affect not only individual people, but entire states. Thus, the growth in the number of users causes an increase in the number of crimes committed in cyberspace. The global consequences of cyberterrorist threats is the fact that as a result of informatization of state and military structures, a new environment is determined - cyberspace, in which all competing states act. Thus, the identified trends clearly indicate the need to increase the importance of counteracting cyberterrorist threats for ensuring national security. And if earlier the information structure of Russia was not vulnerable to terrorist attacks due to the low proportion of automated operations, then modern realities required its modernization and technical re-equipment, which to a certain extent increased the threat of successful unauthorized intrusion into it by cyberterrorists. Consequently, the issues of countering these threats are only increasing. And the main problematic area in this case is the cross-border nature of these crimes, when the perpetrator of violent acts is located several hundred or even thousands of kilometers from the place of the terrorist act. This implies the absence of traces of the crime, which of course does not contribute to the quick search for the offender and bringing him to criminal responsibility.

globalization, cyber attack, cyber terrorism, digital transformation, informatization