Hoewel er te redetwisten valt over de exacte cijfers, boekstaaft de “Cyber Operations Tracker” van de Council on Foreign Relations bijna tweehonderd door staten gesponsorde aanvallen sinds 2005, waaronder twintig in 2016.
Although the exact numbers can be debated, the Council on Foreign Relations’ “Cyber Operations Tracker” contains almost 200 state-sponsored attacks by 18 countries since 2005, including 20 in 2016.