Intelligence

Italian defence firms hit by suspected Indian state-backed hackers (DigWatch)

An advanced persistent threat (APT) group with suspected ties to India has been accused of targeting Italian defence companies in a cyber-espionage campaign. Security...

Assessment of the Global Terrorism Threat Landscape in Mid-2025 (Soufan Center)

Al-Qaeda’s franchise groups, affiliates, and regional branches have ebbed and flowed in strength, but at the moment, both al-Shabaab in Somalia and Jama’a Nusrat...

An AUKUS ultimatum for Australia over Taiwan risks backfiring on Washington (Andrew O’Neil – The Interpreter)

A weekend report in the Financial Times that US Under Secretary of Defence for Policy Elbridge Colby has been privately pushing Australia and Japan...

Can Malaysia nudge ASEAN beyond non- interference to tackle the scam crisis in Myanmar? (Liu Weiyi, Asha Hemrajani – The Interpreter)

Across East and Southeast Asia, the UN estimates that countries collectively suffered estimated loss of US $37 billion in 2023 from the scam cartels....

Cost of Defence’s roadmap for spending 3 percent of GDP on defence (Marc Ablong – The Strategist)

The current debate on Defence funding, sparked by our 29 May report The Cost of Defence: ASPI Defence budget brief 2025–2026, and a subsequent...

In the fight against drugs, Australia should follow the money (John Coyne – The Strategist)

Australia is losing the fight to disrupt illicit drug supply chains, not for lack of effort, but because we need additional weapons and new...

Delisting Hayat Tahrir al-Sham: Implications for U.S. Counterterrorism and Syria Policy (Aaron Y. Zelin – The Washington Institute for Near East Policy)

Seven months after leading the rebel offensive that ousted Bashar al-Assad, and nearly thirteen years since being designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO)...

When stars align: Leveraging European defence budgets to drive a dual-use tech boom (Joris Teer, Giuseppe Spatafora – EUISS)

Europe’s security and economic competitiveness are under growing strain. Danish intelligence estimates indicate that Russia could test NATO’s Article 5 in a few years...

Canada’s Hikvision ban can inspire wider collective action (Justin Bassi and James Corera – The Strategist)

Canada has just made a great step forward in minimising the security risk from China. Now Australia should step forward and propose to work...
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