US CYBERWEAPONS. “Obama administration has spent billions of dollars developing sophisticated cyberweapons with view to using them to intervene in Syrian conflict while reducing need for traditional military attacks; considerations that have led Pres Obama to hesitate about using cyberweapons in Syria reflect larger concerns about the new and untested tactic.”
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/c/cyberwarfare/