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Europol Arrests XSS Forum Admin in Kyiv After 12-Year Run Operating Cybercrime Marketplace (The Hacker News)

Europol on Monday announced the arrest of the suspected administrator of XSS.is (formerly DaMaGeLaB), a notorious Russian-speaking cybercrime platform. The arrest, which took place in...

The U.S. Cannot Prevent Every AI Biothreat—But It Can Outpace Them (Tal Feldman, Jonathan Feldman – Lawfare)

The next biothreat might start as a line of code. A new class of artificial intelligence (AI) systems—known as protein language models (PLMs)—can design...

The 40 ‘Red Hackers’ Who Shaped China’s Cyber Ecosystem (Eugenio Benincasa – RUSI)

Between January and March 2025, the United States indicted or sanctioned individuals and companies linked to Chinese state-sponsored threat actors known as APT27, Red...

The rise of false flag conspiracy theories in moments of crises (Valeria de la Fuente – Institute for Strategic Dialogue)

False flag conspiracy theories predate the internet by decades, but the speed and volume at which they now spread is unprecedented, with claims increasing...

Online radicalization and the nexus to violence in the US: 2024 year in review (Jared Holt, Cody Zoschak, Katherine Keneally – Institute for Strategic...

In recent years, violent attacks with weapons and other acts of politically charged violence in the US have challenged longstanding frameworks used to identify...

Operation Overload’s underwhelming influence and evolving tactics (Institute for Strategic Dialogue)

Operation Overload, also referred to as Matryoshka and Storm-1679, is a Russian-aligned information operation that impersonates credible sources to sow confusion and undermine public...

Global operation targets NoName057(16) pro-Russian cybercrime network (Europol)

Between 14 and 17 July, a joint international operation, known as Eastwood and coordinated by Europol and Eurojust, targeted the cybercrime network NoName057(16). Law...

Raw Materials for Potential Chemical Warfare Agents: Technical Assessment 1 (RUSI)

Understanding the raw materials and precursor chemicals required to support a chemical weapons (CW) programme is an important foundation stone in an assessment of...

The Time-Crunch for CyberEM Command’s Challenges (Robert Tollast – RUSI)

The forthcoming UK Cyber and Electromagnetic Command (CyberEM) outlined in the Strategic Defence Review could be a much-needed pillar of modernisation. It follows a...

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