The article aims to address the issue of cyber warfare and emerging threat of information security of an individual as well as state after the inception of cyber attacks. It has emerged out to be a paradox in a way for those countries too who denied considering it as a threat . This article tries to answer that what is cyber warfare further explaining its types. Undoubtedly cyber warfare is  different and way more threatening than the conventional or traditional forms of warfare. Further it also discusses that why cyber warfare is used by opponent states against each other and how non state actors use it for their malicious purposes with the help of reasons and examples of incidents. Here the author also critically examines the already existing laws in this regard and most importantly whether these laws ensure information security of an individual or not. Lastly this article also explores the new phenomena of information warfare which has emerged especially after social media .Plus  the difference of cyber warfare with information warfare. In the end after the reading and analysis of relevant literature the set of useful recommendations are also given which can offer the solutions in this regard.

Cornish, P., Livingstone, D., Clemente, D.,& Yorke, C. (2010). On cyber warfare (Report No 978 1 86203 243 9). London: Chatham House.
https://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/default/files/public/Research/International%20Security/r1110_cyberwarfare.pdf
Melzer, N. (2011). Cyberwarfare and International Law. Zurich: UNIDIR. Retrieved from https://unidir.org/
Gazula, M. B. (2017). Cyber warfare conflict analysis and case studies (Doctoral dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Massachusetts. Retrieved from http://web.mit.edu.
Bello O. A., Aderbigbe F. M..(2015). Cyber warfare. The New Frontier of International War fare. International Journal of Sustainable Development Research 1(1),1-4,
doi: 10.11648/j.ijsdr.20150101.11

Hruza, P., & Cerny, J. (2017). Cyber warfare. International Conference Knowledge based organization23(1).155-159.
doi: 10.1515/kbo-2017-0024
Friedman, T.L. .(2019, January 31).Imagining Surveillance Capitalism. New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com
White, R. (2018, February 20). The Differences Between Cyber and Information Warfare [Blog post]. Retrieved from https://blog.cybersecuritylaw.us/2018/02/20/the-difference-between-cyber-and-information-warfare/
Filder,D.(2018,March 15).The UN Secretary-General's Call for Regulating Cyberwar Raises More Questions Than Answers. Retrieved fromhttps://www.cfr.org/blog/un-secretary-generals-call-regulating-cyberwar-raises-more-questions-answers
Cherneko, E., Demidov,O.,Luckynov,F. (2018, February 23) Increasing International Cooperation in Cybersecurity and Adapting Cyber Norms .Retrieved from https://www.cfr.org/report/increasing-international-cooperation-cybersecurity-and-adapting-cyber-norms
Stupples,D. (2015 ,December 03).What is information warfare?. Retrieved from https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/12/what-is-information-warfare/
Ritcher, W.( 2018 ,July 24). Results Are In: How Americans Faced the Equifax Hack where Personal Data of 45% of US Adults Were Stolen.. Retrieved from https://wolfstreet.com/2018/07/24/how-americans-faced-equifax-hack/
Chang,A.( 2018 ,May 2).The Face book and Cambridge Analytica scandal, explained with a simple diagram. Retrieved from https://www.vox.com/policy-andpolitics/2018/3/23/17151916/facebook-cambridge-analytica-trump-diagram.
Anderton, K.(2017, March 2017). 8 Major Cyber Attacks of 2016. Retrieved from https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinanderton/2017/03/29/8-major-cyber-attacks-of-2016- infographic/#1f2885ef48e3
Damjanović, D. Z. (2017).Types of information warfare and examples of malicious programs of information warfare. Vojnotehni čki glasnik / military technical courier 66(4).1045-1059.
Retrieved from http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8169-4507
Chawki, M. (2009). Anonymity in cyberspace: Finding the balance between privacy and security. International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialization 9(3).183-199.
doi: 10.1504/IJTTC.2010.030209