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List of cyber warfare forces

Many countries around the world maintain military units that are specifically trained to operate in a cyberwarfare environment. In several cases these units act also as the national computer emergency response team for civilian cybersecurity threats.

Albania

Argentina

  • Joint Cyber Defense Command of the Armed Forces Joint Staff ()
  • Cyberdefense Operations Center ()
  • Cyberdefense Engineering Center ()
  • Security Operations Intelligent Center ()
  • National Cyberdefense Center ()
  • Informatic Energencies Response Center of the Defense Ministry ()
  • Cybernetic Analysis Laboratory ()

Armenia

  • Subdivision 1991 (1991 Ստորաբաժանում - 1991 Storabazhanum)

Australia

Austria

  • Information Communications Technologies and Cybersecurity Center ()

Azerbaijan

  • Special Communication and Information Security State Service ()

Belarus

  • Information Technology Specialized Company (Специализированную роту по информационной безопасности - Spetsializirovannuyu Rotu po Informatsionnoy Bezopasnosti)

Belgium

  • Defense Cyber Directorate
  • Cyber Command

Bolivia

  • Cybersecurity and Cyberdefense Center ()

Brazil

  • Cybernetic Defense Command ()
  • National Cybernetic Defense School ()
  • Cybernetic Defense Center ()

Brunei

Bulgaria

  • Stationary Communication Information System (Стационарна Комуникационна Информационна Система - Statsionarna Komunikatsionna Informatsionna Sistema)

Canada

Chile

  • Cyberdefense Incidents Response Center ()

China (People’s Republic of China)

  • Ministry of State Security
  • Jiangsu State Security Department
  • People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force (人民解放军战略支援部队 - Rénmín JiěfàngjÅ«n Zhànlüè ZhÄ«yuán Bùduì)
  • People's Liberation Army Network System Department (人民解放军网络系统部 - Rénmín JiěfàngjÅ«n Wǎngluò Xìtǒng Bù)
  • Unit 61489 (61489部队 - 61489 Bùduì)
  • Unit 61786 (61786部队 - 61786 Bùduì)
  • 56th Jiangan Computing Technologies Research Institute (第56江南计算技术研究所 - Dì 56 Jiāngnán Jìsuàn Jìshù YánjiÅ« Suǒ)
  • 57th Research Institute (第57研究所 - Dì 57 YánjiÅ« Suǒ)
  • 58th Research Institute (第58研究所 - Dì 58 YánjiÅ« Suǒ)
  • Cyberspace Security Academy (网络空间安全学院 - Wǎngluò Kōngjiān Ānquán Xuéyuàn)

China (Republic of China/“Taiwan”)

  • Information Communication and Electronic Warfare Command (信息和电子战司令部 - XìnxÄ« Hé Diànzǐ Zhàn SÄ«lìng Bù)

Colombia

  • Joint Cybernetic Command ()
  • National Army Cybernetic Unit ()
  • National Navy Cibernetic Unit ()
  • Air Force Cybernetic Unit ()
  • Communications and Cyberdefense Operational Support Command ()

Croatia

  • Cybernetic Domain Command of the General Staff ()

Cuba

  • Military Cyberdefense Command ()

Cyprus

  • Cyber Defense Command of the General Staff of National Defense ( - )

Czech Republic

  • National Cyber Operations Centre ()

Denmark

  • The defense intelligence service
  • Center for Cyber Security ()

Dominican Republic

  • Armed Forces Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cybersecurity and Intelligence Center ()

Ecuador

  • Cyberdefense Command ()

Estonia

Finland

  • Defense Forces Command System Center ()

France

  • Inter-service
  • ()
  • Armed Forces Cyberdefence Group ()
  • Information Systems Security Audit Center ()
  • Defensive Computer Fighting Analysis Center ()
  • Cyber Operational Readiness Center ()
  • Main Inter-services Standardization Center()
  • Army
  • Operational Center for Land Information and Communication Systems and Cybersecurity Networks ()
  • Cyber Defence Regiment
  • Navy
  • Cyber Defense Support Center ()
  • Cyber Defense Platoon, ()
  • Air Force
  • Aerospace Environment Cyberdefence Center of Excellence ()

Georgia

  • Cyber Security Bureau

Germany

  • Cyber and Information Domain Command ()
  • Armed Forces Information Technology Command ()
  • Armed Forces Cyber Security Center ()
  • Strategic Reconnaissance Command ()
  • Cyber Operations Center ()

Greece

  • Cyber Defense Directorate of the General Staff of National Defense ( - )

Guatemala

  • Computing and Technology Command ()
  • Ministry of the Interior of Guatemala ()

Hungary

  • Cyber Defense Center - Military National Security Service ()

India

Indonesia

  • Inter-service
  • ()
  • Army
  • ()
  • Navy
  • Navy Security and Cypher Service ()
  • Navy Cyber Unit ()
  • Air Force
  • ()
  • Air Force Cyber Unit (Satuan Siber TNI-AU)

Iran

Ireland

Israel

Italy

Inter-service

Army

Navy

  • Cybernetic, Informatic and Signal Security Office ()

Air Force

  • Automated Information Systems Unit ()

Japan

  • Japan Air Self-Defense Force ( - )
  • Self Defence Force Command and Communication System Department ( - )
  • Cyber Defense Team ( - )
  • Network Operations Team ( - )

Jordan

  • Armed Forces Computer Emergency Response Team

Korea (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea/“North Korea”)

  • Research Institute 110 (110호 연구소 - 110ho Yeonguso)
  • 31st Technical Reconnaissance Office (기술정찰조 31소 - Gisuljeongchaljo 31so)
  • 32nd Technical Reconnaissance Office (기술정찰조 32소 - Gisuljeongchaljo 32so)
  • 56th Technical Reconnaissance Office (기술정찰조 56소 - Gisuljeongchaljo 56so)

General Staff Department of the Korean People's Army:

  • Operation Bureau
  • Communications Bureau
  • Electronic Warfare Bureau
  • Enemy Collapse Sabotage Bureau:
  • Unit 204
  • Command Automation Bureau/Department:
  • (General Staff's) Office 31/unit (develops hacking tools)
  • (General Staff's) Office/unit 32 (develops military-related software)
  • (General Staff's) Office/unit 56 (develops software for command and control)

Reconnaissance General Bureau:

  • Bureau 325 (stealing information on vaccine technology related to COVID-19)
  • Bureau 121 (network attacks and exfiltration operations)
  • Lab 110 (Technology Reconnaissance Team)
  • Office 98
  • Office 414
  • Office 35
  • Office/Unit 91:
  • Unit 110 (AKA Technology Reconnaissance Team)
  • Unit 35 (Central Party's Investigations Department)
  • Unit 121 (NKPA Joint Chiefs Cyber Warfare Unit 121)
  • Unit 204 (Cyber PSYOPS)
  • Unit 180
  • 128 Liaison Office
  • 413 Liaison Office
  • The Andariel Group
  • The Bluenoroff Group
  • an Electronic Warfare Jamming Regiment
  • Lazarus Group
  • Computer Technology Research Lab
  • 6th Technical Bureau of the Reconnaissance General Bureau
  • Bureau/Lab 110 / 110 Institute (Technology Reconnaissance Team, conducts computer network operations against military units and strategic organizations.)
  • 3rd Bureau of the RGB (AKA 3rd Technical Surveillance Bureau, responsible for North Korea's cyber operations)
  • 110th Research Center
  • Lazarus Group
  • Bluenoroff (earn revenue illicitly in response to increased global sanctions...)
  • Andariel (See source for details)

Others:

  • The Data Investigation Examination Office (conducts cyber espionage to collect intelligence on politics, economics, and societies abroad)
  • KWP's Unification and United Front Department (cyber influence operations through social media and websites such as Uriminzokkiri, which is maintained by the party's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland.)
  • The KWP Central Party Investigative Group
  • Unit 35 (education and training).
  • The State Security Department's (secret police) communications monitoring and computer hacking group conducts cyber warfare, presumably in support of its mission of internal state security.

Korea (Republic of Korea/“South Korea”)

  • Cyber Operations Command (사이버 작전 사령부 - Saibeo Jagjeon Salyeongbu)
  • 500th Center (Cyber Defense Operations Office) (500센터(사이버방어작전 담당) – 500 Senteo Saibeobang-Eojagjeon Damdang)
  • 700th Center (Cyber Threats Information Management Office) (700센터(사이버위협정보 담당) – 700 Senteo (Saibeo Wihyeob Jeongbo Damdang))

Latvia

  • National Guard Cyber Defence Unit (Zemessardzes KiberaizsardzÄ«bas VienÄ«ba)

Lithuania

Lithuanian Armed Forces

National Cyber Security Centre of Lithuania (Nacionalinis kibernetinio saugumo centras)

Malaysia

  • Cyber and Electromagnetic Command (Pemerintahan Siber dan Elektromagnetik)

Mexico

Mexican Army

  • Cyberspace Operations Center ()

Mexican Navy

  • Cybersecurity Unit (Unidad de Ciberseguridad)

Moldova

  • Armed Forces Cybernetic Incidents Reaction Center (Centru de Reacție la Incidente Cibernetice a Forțelor Armate)

Morocco

  • Royal Armed Forces Cyber Center of Excellence

NATO

Netherlands

New Zealand

  • Cyber Cell, 1st Command Support Regiment

Nigeria

  • Cyber Warfare Command

Norway

  • Cyber Defence Force (Cyberforsvarets)
  • Cyber Defense Computer Information Services (CIS) Regiment (Cyberforsvarets CIS-regiment)
  • Cyber Security Center (Cybersikkerhetssenteret)
  • Cyber Defense Weapons School (Cyberforsvarets VÃ¥penskole)
  • Cyber Defense Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Service (Cyberforsvarets IKT-tjenester)
  • Cyber Defense Base and Alarm Service (Cyberforsvarets Base- og Alarmtjenester)

Pakistan

PAF Cyber Force.

Paraguay

  • General Directorate of Information and Communication Technologies of the Armed Forces (Dirección General de Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación de las Fuerzas Armadas)

Peru

  • Cyberdefense Operational Command (Comando Operacional de Ciberdefensa)

Philippines

  • Army Cyber Defense Team

Poland

  • Cybernetic Operations Center (Centrum Operacji Cybernetycznych)
  • National Center for Cyberspace Security (Narodowe Centrum Bezpieczeństwa Cyberprzestrzeni)
  • Defense Ministry Coordination Center for Computer Incident Response - Military Counterintelligence Service (Centrum Koordynacyjnego Systemu Reagowania na Incydenty Komputerowe Obrony Narodowej - Służba Kontrwywiadu Wojskowego)
  • Cyberspace Defense Forces (Wojska Obrony Cyberprzestrzeni)

Portugal

  • Cyberdefense Center - Armed Forces General Staff (Centro de Ciberdefesa – Estado Maior General das Forças Armadas)
  • Computer Incident Response Capability - Army (CIRC Exercito)
  • Computer Incident Response Capability - Navy (CIRC Marinha)
  • Computer Incident Response Capability - Air Force (CIRC Força Aerea)

Romania

  • Cybernetic Defense Command (Comandamentul Apărării Cibernetice)
  • Informatic Technology Agency (AgenÅ£ia de Tehnologia InformaÅ£iei)
  • Cybernetic Defense Agency (AgenÅ£ia de Apărăre Cibernetică)

The Russian Federation

  • (Войска информационных операций - Voyska Informatsionnykh Operatsiy)
  • Western Military District Cybersecurity Center (Западный военный округ центр киберзащиты – Zapadnyy Voyenny Okrug Tsentr Kiberzashchity)
  • Southern Military District Cybersecurity Center (Южный военный округ центр киберзащиты – Yuzhnyy Voyenny Okrug Tsentr Kiberzashchity)
  • Central Military District Cybersecurity Center (Центральный военный округ центр киберзащиты – Tsentral'nyy Voyenny Okrug Tsentr Kiberzashchity)
  • Eastern Military District Cybersecurity Center (Восточный военный округ центр киберзащиты – Vostochnyy Voyenny Okrug Tsentr Kiberzashchity)
  • Joint Strategic Command “Northern Fleet” Cybersecurity Center (Объединённое стратегическое командование “Северный флот” центр киберзащиты - Ob"yedinonnoye Strategicheskoye Komandovaniye “Severnyy flot” Tsentr Kiberzashchity)
  • Special Development Center of the Ministry of Defense (Центр специальных разработок Министерства обороны - Tsentr Spetsial'nykh Razrabotok Ministerstva Oborony)
  • 6th Directorate - General Directorate of the General Staff (Шестое Управление-Главное управление Генерального штаба - Shestoye Upravleniye-Glavnoye Upravleniye General'nogo Shtaba)
  • 85th Special Service Main Center – Military Unit 26165 (85-й главный центр специальной службы-Военная часть 26165 - 85-y Glavnyy Tsentr Spetsial'noy Sluzhby-Voyennaya Chast' 26165))
  • Special Technologies Main Center – Military Unit 74455 (Главный центр специальных технологий-Военная часть 74455 - Glavnyy Tsentr Spetsial'nykh Tekhnologiy-Voyennaya Chast' 74455)

Serbia

  • 224th Center for Electronic Action (224. Центар за електронска дејства - 224. Centar za Elektronska Dejstva)

Singapore

Slovakia

  • Military Intelligence Cybernetic Defense Center (Centrum pre Kybernetickú Obranu - Vojenského Spravodajstva )

South Africa

  • Directorate Information Warfare

Slovenia

  • Communication and Information Systems Unit (Enota za Komunikacijske in Informacijske Sisteme)
  • Cyber Defence Centre (Center za Kibernetsko Obrambo)
  • Threat Research Centre (Center za Raziskovanje Groženj)

Spain

Inter-service

  • Joint Cyberspace Command (Mando Conjunto del Ciberespacio)
  • Cyberspace Operations Force (Fuerza de Operaciones en el Ciberespacio)
  • Cyberdefense Systems Command (Jefatura de Sistemas de Ciberdefensa)
  • Army
  • 32nd Electronic Warfare Regiment (Regimiento de Guerra Electrónica nº 32)
  • Navy
  • Cyberdefense Section (Sección de Ciberdefensa)
  • Air Force
  • Cyberdefense Security Operations Center (Centro de Operaciones de Seguridad de Ciberdefensa)

Sri Lanka

Sweden

  • Information Technologies Defense Forces (Informationsteknikförsvarsförbandet)
  • Information Systems Defense Force (Informationssystemförband)
  • National Defence Radio Establishment (FRA, Försvarets Radioanstalt)

Switzerland

  • (Führungsunterstützungsbasis - Base d'Aide au Commandement - Base d'Aiuto alla Condotta)
  • Cyber Security Division
  • Cyber Fusion Center
  • Cyber Battalion 42

Thailand

  • (ศูนย์ไซเบอร์กองทัพบก - Ṣ̄ūny̒ Sịbexr̒ Kxngthạph Bk)

Turkey

  • Cyber Defence Command (Siber Savunma Komutanlığı)
  • Cyber Defence Center (Siber Savunma Merkezi)

Ukraine

  • (Командування військ зв’язку та кібернетичної безпеки Збройних Сил України - Komanduvannya vijsk zvyazku ta kibernetychnoyi bezpeky Zbroynykh Syl Ukrayiny)

United Kingdom

Army

  • 13th Signal Regiment
  • 224 (Defensive Cyber Operations) Signal Squadron
  • 233 (Global Communication Networks) Signal Squadron
  • 259 (Global Information Services) Signal Squadron

Navy

  • Cyber Defence Operations Center

Air Force

  • Air Cyber and Information Services Operations Centre
  • No. 5 (Information Services) Squadron
  • 591 Defensive Cyber Air Combat Service Support Unit

Government Communications Headquarters

Inter-service

United States

Inter-service

Army

  • U.S. Army Cyber Command
  • U.S. Army Network Enterprise Technology Command
  • 1st Information Operations Command (Land)
  • 1st Information Operations Battalion
  • 2nd Information Operations Battalion
  • 780th Military Intelligence Brigade (Cyber) “Pretorians”
  • 781st Military Intelligence Battalion “Vanguard”
  • 782nd Military Intelligence Battalion “Cyber Legion”
  • 915th Cyber Warfare Battalion
  • Cyber Solutions Development Detachment
  • Task Force Echo (Army Reserve)
  • U.S. Army Cyber Center of Excellence
  • U.S. Army Cyber School
  • U.S. Army Cyber Technical College
  • U.S. Army Cyber Leader College
  • Cyber Training Battalion - 15th Signal Brigade
  • Multi-Domain Task Force 1
  • Multi-Domain Effects Battalion (previously Intelligence, Information, Cyber, Electronic Warfare and Space Battalion)
  • Information Defense Company
  • Army Reserve
  • Cyber Protection Brigade
  • North East Cyber Protection Center
  • Cyber Protection Team 180
  • Cyber Protection Team 181
  • National Capital Region Cyber Protection Center
  • Cyber Protection Team 182
  • Cyber Protection Team 183
  • South West Cyber Protection Center
  • Cyber Protection Team 184
  • Cyber Protection Team 185
  • North Central Cyber Protection Center
  • Cyber Protection Team 186
  • Cyber Protection Team 187
  • Western Cyber Protection Center
  • Cyber Protection Team 188
  • Cyber Protection Team 189
  • Arizona Cyber Warfare Range
  • Army National Guard
  • 91st Cyber Brigade (Virginia NG)
  • 123rd Cyber Protection Battalion (Virginia NG)
  • 124th Cyber Protection Battalion (Virginia NG)
  • 125th Cyber Protection Battalion (South Carolina NG)
  • 126th Cyber Protection Battalion (Massachusetts NG)
  • 127th Cyber Protection Battalion (Indiana NG)
  • Cyber Protection Team 169 (Maryland NG)
  • Cyber Protection Team 170 (Georgia NG)
  • Cyber Protection Team 171 (California NG)
  • Cyber Protection Team 172 (Michigan NG)
  • Cyber Protection Team 173 (New York NG)
  • Cyber Protection Team 174 (Colorado and Utah NG)
  • Cyber Protection Team 175 (Alabama, Kentucky and Tennessee NG)
  • Cyber Protection Team 176 (Illinois and Wisconsin NG)
  • Cyber Protection Team 177 (Minnesota NG)
  • Cyber Protection Team 178 (Mississippi NG)
  • Cyber Protection Team 179 (Nebraska NG)
  • Defensive Cyber Operations Element (Colorado NG)
  • Defensive Cyber Operations Element (Florida NG)
  • Defensive Cyber Operations Element (Oklahoma NG)
  • Defensive Cyber Operations Element (Pennsylvania NG)
  • Defensive Cyber Operations Element (West Virginia NG)
  • Cyber Mission Assurance Team (Ohio NG)
  • Cyber Mission Assurance Team (Hawaii NG)
  • Cyber Mission Assurance Team (Washington NG)
  • 56th Theater Information Operations Group (WA ARNG)

Navy

Air Force

Marines

Coast Guard

  • U.S. Coast Guard Cyber Command
  • U.S. Coast Guard Office of Cyberspace Forces

Space Force

Uruguay

  • Defense Informatic Security Incidents Response Team (Equipo de Respuesta a Incidentes de Seguridad Informática de Defensa)

Venezuela

  • Joint Cyberdefense Directorate (Dirección Conjunta de Ciberdefensa)
  • Cyberdefense Operations Division (División de Operaciones de Ciberdefensa)
  • Information Security Management Division (División de Gestión de Seguridad Informática)
  • Investigation and Development Division (División de Investigación y Desarrollo)

Vietnam

  • (Bộ Tư lệnh Tác chiến không gian mạng)
  • 1st Brigade (Lữ đoàn 1)
  • 2nd Brigade (Lữ đoàn 2)
  • 3rd Brigade (Lữ đoàn 3)
  • 10th Laboratory (Viện 10)
  • Force 47 (Lá»±c Lượng 47)

See also

Notes

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