Policy Brief Cyberwarfare: - The ‘Pink Tax’ of Hacking

Although the perpetrator is unknown, the method the hackers used is linked to the Russian extortion group Clop, which has ties to the Kremlin. [...] By publishing the names and addresses of Turkish citizens, the hackers put thousands of women in danger and contributed to well-documented incidents of offline gender-based violence; ‘doxing’, the process of publishing confidential personal information online, has led women to be the targets of offline stalking, sexual violence, death threats, and bomb scares (Brown and Pyltak 2020). [...] Because women are more likely to be the victims of intimate partner violence, stalking, harassment, and sexual violence, cyber-attacks that 3 April 2024 Cyberwarfare: the ‘Pink Tax’ of Hacking Volume 9, Issue 2 leak confidential data to the public can result in increased negative outcomes for women. [...] Although AI can powerfully improve the speed and delivery of public transit systems through self-driving subway cars and computer-automated scheduling, the incorporation of AI into transit systems means that the frequency and severity of cyber-attacks will likely increase. [...] To best adapt and respond to the gendered effects of cyber warfare, the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security should: 1.