‘A Third World War': Russian official declares cyberwar already ‘in full swing’

A global conflict between the great powers of the world is already “in full swing,” according to a senior Russian diplomat, and it’s happening in cyberspace.

“The war [in cyberspace] is underway and unfolding very intensively,” the Russian Foreign Ministry’s international information security director, Alexander Krutskikh, told a political science conference on Thursday. “The media rightly says that this [is] a Third World War, and what matters now is to calculate the damage and determine who will lose it in the end and what shape the world will eventually acquire as a result of this war.”