Intelligence

Jury orders NSO Group to pay $168 million to WhatsApp for facilitating Pegasus hacks of its users (Suzanne Smally – The Record)

A Northern California jury on Tuesday decided that a spyware manufacturer must pay $167 million in punitive damages for its role facilitating the hacking...

Azerbaijan blames Russian state hackers for cyberattacks on local media (Daryna Antoniuk – The Record)

Azerbaijani officials claimed that the Russian state-sponsored hacker group APT29 was behind a cyberattack on several local media outlets earlier this year. The likely...

Russian hackers target Romanian state websites on election day (Daryna Antoniuk – The Record)

A Russian-linked hacktivist group known as NoName057(16) claimed responsibility for cyberattacks on several Romanian websites over the weekend, as voters headed to the polls...

Regional Reverberations: The Pahalgam Attack and Its Impact on South Asia’s Security Landscape (Arman Ahmed – Australian Institute of International Affairs)

The Pahalgam attack marks a turning point in South Asia’s security landscape, amplifying geopolitical tensions and straining India–Pakistan relations. With diplomacy frozen and regional...

The Australia-India defence relationship is not all about the numbers (Kim Heriot-Darragh, Gaurav Saini – The Interpreter)

Australia and India must understand each other better if they want to turn their defence relationship into something truly resilient and responsive. High-end cooperation...

Undersea cable control: The information dimension (Richard Dunley – The Interpreter)

Sabotage operations conducted against cables and pipelines in European waters, which are generally attributed to Russia, have made marine infrastructure attacks a hot topic...

Ransomware attacks on food and agriculture industry have doubled in 2025 (Jonathan Greig – The Record)

Ransomware gangs have long targeted the food and agriculture industry, but seemed to have ramped up attacks in 2025. Jonathan Braley, director of cyber information...

Trump’s national security strategy: from Pax Americana to Pact Americana (Jahara Matisek, James Farwell – The Strategist)

After 100 days of action, US President Donald Trump’s national security strategy is coming into focus. His second presidency appears to embrace a ‘peace...

Experts see rise of powerful non-state groups as US retreats from global stage (Patrick Tucker – Defense One)

Several trends are giving violent extremist groups a brighter, more profitable future, security officials and experts from around the world said this week at...

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