Intelligence

Assessing North Korea’s AI ambitions

(Lami Kim - IISS) The final report of North Korea’s 9th Party Congress outlined ambitious plans to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into both its...

Geostrategic magazine (24 March 2026)

War in Iran/Middle East/Gulf and beyond (Frederick Kempe - Atlantic Council) The newest edition of the Economist puts it this way: “The conflict ravaging the...

Worlds In Brief (24 March 2026)

War in Iran/Middle East/Gulf and beyond (Reuters/Al Arabiya) Iran launched multiple waves of missiles at Israel, the Israeli military said, after US President Donald Trump...

High-Tech Sector Overtakes Finance as Top Target for Cyber-Attacks, Mandiant Reports

(Kevin Poireault - Infosecurity Magazine) The high-tech sector was the most targeted industry for cyber-attacks in 2025, dethroning financial services as the primary focus...

Pro-Iranian Nasir Security is targeting energy companies in the Gulf

(Pierluigi Paganini - Security Affairs) Resecurity (USA) is tracking a relatively new cybercriminal group called Nasir Security, presumably associated with Iran, that is targeting...

Iran-linked actors use Telegram as C2 in malware attacks on dissidents

(Pierluigi Paganini - Security Affairs) The FBI warns that Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) runs cyber campaigns using Telegram as a command-and-control...

International police Operation Alice take down 373,000 dark web sites exploiting children

(Pierluigi Paganini - Security Affairs) An international law enforcement operation, code named Operation Alice, shut down one of the largest dark web scams, uncovering...

Russia-linked actors target WhatsApp and Signal in phishing campaign

(Pierluigi Paganini - Security Affairs) Threat actors linked to Russian Intelligence Services are running phishing campaigns to hijack high-value accounts on messaging apps like...

Worlds In Brief (23 March 2026)

War in Iran/Middle East/Gulf and beyond (AFP/Al Arabiya) President Donald Trump said Monday that there are “major points of agreement” in US-Iran talks which he...

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