One of the most assured issues in the scope of International Humanitarian Law is the avoidance of the use of means and methods of warfare that directly and indirectly affects civilians, as well as taking the feasible precautions to avoid these effects, especially if there are certain facts, confirm that the use of a certain weapon or combat method will lead to a serious breach of the rules of International Humanitarian Law. This can be illustrated by conducting an approach between the concepts of anticipating ahead and whether cyber-attacks are a means of combat whose potential effects can be determined before use or not? In comparison with the rest of the weapons whose potential effects can be determined in the physical filed and not in the virtual filed (the digital).