Intelligence

US confirms takedown of BlackSuit ransomware gang that racked up $370 million in ransoms (Jonathan Greig – The Record)

U.S. law enforcement agencies provided new details on an operation that dismantled critical infrastructure used by the BlackSuit ransomware gang after the organization’s leak...

Cyberattack hits France’s third-largest mobile operator, millions of customers affected (Alexander Martin – The Record)

Bouygues Telecom, one of France’s largest telecom companies and its third-largest mobile operator, announced on Wednesday being hit by a cyberattack that compromised the...

Tailored psychological warfare: a deepfake video of Hong Kong activists (Sze-Fung Lee – ASPI The Strategist)

A deepfake video fabricating an online conversation between prominent Hong Kong activists has become the first known exercise in the next level of AI-enabled...

Damage to Iran’s Nuclear Program—Can It Rebuild? (Joseph Rodgers, Heather Williams, and Joseph S. Bermudez Jr. – Center for Strategic & International Studies)

In the immediate aftermath of the U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities on June 22, “Operation Midnight Hammer,” policymakers and experts launched into a...

British intelligence warns cyber threat to critical infrastructure is increasing (Alexander Martin – The Record)

The threat posed by hackers to critical infrastructure in Britain is increasing, leaving a “widening gap” between the potential for harm and the collective...

Hackers using fake summonses in attacks on Ukraine’s defense sector (Daryna Antoniuk – The Record)

Hackers have been sending fake summons emails purportedly from Ukrainian courts to target the country’s government, military and defense sector in a new cyberespionage...

Agentic AI: Does the Future of Warfare Look Autonomous? (The Soufan Center)

Agentic warfare, a military model in which autonomous and semi-autonomous systems are deployed to facilitate or drive planning, logistics, operations, and intelligence, is set...

Fibre-optic drones reshape Ukraine’s technological war (David Kirichenko – Lowy The Interpreter)

Fibre-optic drones have taken a more central role on the battlefields in Ukraine. Frontline soldiers describe the conflict as a war of drones and...

In cybersecurity, people are the weak point (Annie-Mei Forster and Saja English – ASPI The Strategist)

While cybersecurity professionals often focus on firewalls, encryption and software vulnerabilities, the real battleground is human psychology. While organisations remain fixated on digital defences,...

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