Intelligence

Mapping a decade’s worth of hybrid threats targeting Australia (Fitriani, Shelly Shih – The Strategist)

Hybrid threats, enabled by digital technologies and fuelled by geostrategic competition, are reshaping international security and global norms. Most often, states (commonly working through...

Counting the costs: A cybersecurity metrics framework for policy (Stewart Scott – Atlantic Council)

US cybersecurity policy has a critical blind spot: the absence of reliable outcome metrics that can inform policymakers about whether the digital ecosystem is...

The Anti-Terrorism Act Is Being Weaponized to Harass Israel’s Critics (Joseph Pace – Lawfare)

In 2016, Congress expanded the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) to allow private parties to sue anyone who “aids and abets” acts of international terrorism. While...

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...

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