Research Article

Identifying Key Relationships between Nation-State Cyberattacks and Geopolitical and Economic Factors: A Model

Table 7

Influence of each GPE factor per country as attacker/victim.

CountryEconomy adjusted R2Strategy or diplomacy adjusted R2Warfare adjusted R2

Attacker perspective
CHN0.550.510.06
IND0.460.550.17
IRN0.430.58−0.06
PRK0.48
RUS0.890.810.64
USA0.640.440.49
VNM0.280.510.12

Victim perspective
CHN0.600.650.08
IND0.0360.580.07
IRN0.330.14−0.03
PRK
RUS0.730.560.10
USA0.760.800.02
VNM0.880.850.33