Intelligence

North Korea’s Latest ‘IT Worker’ Scheme Seeks Nuclear Funds (Kristina Beek, Dark Reading)

North Korean-linked hackers are picking up new tactics within the ongoing fake IT worker schemes, impersonating individuals trying to obtain remote employment. In the...

Focus on Elon Musk’s algorithms, not his words, says France’s disinformation agency (Alexander Martin, The Record)

Anne-Sophie Dhiver is the deputy head of the French government agency Viginum, the first and only investigative body created by a Western democracy entirely...

Iran linked to more than 20 plots to kill or kidnap British citizens and residents (Alexander Martin, The Record)

In a statement to Parliament on the growing threat to the United Kingdom posed by Iran, a British government minister revealed on Tuesday that...

Suspected Iran-backed hackers target UAE with newly discovered ‘Sosano’ malware (Daryna Antoniuk, The Record)

A relatively unknown threat actor targeted several organizations in the United Arab Emirates, — including those involved in aviation, satellite communications and critical transportation...

Russia to redeploy resources freed up by end of war in Ukraine, warns Finnish intelligence (Alexander Martin, The Record)

Finland’s security and intelligence agency Supo warned on Tuesday that the threat posed by Russia is set to rise across Europe as a result...

Russia Capitalizes on Development of Artificial Intelligence in its Military Strategy (Sergey Sukhankin, The Jamestown Foundation)

Russia has significantly increased its investment in artificial intelligence (AI), allocating a substantial portion of its state budget toward AI-driven military research. This funding...

Countering Russian Lawfare and Gray Zone Operations (Omer Duru, Jill Goldenziel – Just Security)

Legal warfare, more commonly known as lawfare, is a pillar of the People’s Republic of China (PRC)’s military doctrine. Although the Russian Federation has...

How DHS Laid the Groundwork for More Intelligence Abuse (Spencer Reynolds, Just Security)

The lead intelligence unit of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) — long plagued by politicized targeting, permissive rules, and a toxic culture —...

Problems With a Criminal Law Response to Transnational Repression (Jeremy Daum, Lawfare)

On Feb. 10, a jury in Boston acquitted Litang Liang of charges that he unlawfully acted as an unregistered foreign agent for the People’s...

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