the organisation is also redefining cyberwarfare, saying that the dissemination of information "harmful to the spiritual, moral and cultural spheres of other states" should be considered a "security threat". an accord adopted in 2009 defined "information war", in part, as an effort by a state to undermine another's "political, economic, and social systems". "the diplomat" reported in 2017 that sco has foiled 600 terror plots and extradited 500 terrorists through rats.