Intelligence

Undersea sensors—a US trump card China knows it must eliminate (David Axe – The Strategist)

Unseen, largely unknown and, until recently, highly classified, the US Navy’s vast network of underwater sonars is one of its greatest advantages over rival...

Safeguarding Critical Infrastructure: Key Challenges in Global Cybersecurity (Nidhi Singh – Carnegie India)

Cyberattacks against critical infrastructure (CI) have evolved from isolated incidents to coordinated campaigns by both state and non-state actors. Cyber threats have become increasingly...

Sustaining the U.S. Edge in Remote Sensing, Launch, and Advanced Technologies for National Security (Kathleen Curlee – CSET)

The U.S. space economy has evolved significantly over the past 70 years. What began in the 1950s as a fully government-supported sector has transformed...

China-Based APTs Deploy Fake Dalai Lama Apps to Spy on Tibetan Community (The Hacker News)

The Tibetan community has been targeted by a China-nexus cyber espionage group as part of two campaigns conducted last month ahead of the Dalai...

Europol Arrests XSS Forum Admin in Kyiv After 12-Year Run Operating Cybercrime Marketplace (The Hacker News)

Europol on Monday announced the arrest of the suspected administrator of XSS.is (formerly DaMaGeLaB), a notorious Russian-speaking cybercrime platform. The arrest, which took place in...

The U.S. Cannot Prevent Every AI Biothreat—But It Can Outpace Them (Tal Feldman, Jonathan Feldman – Lawfare)

The next biothreat might start as a line of code. A new class of artificial intelligence (AI) systems—known as protein language models (PLMs)—can design...

The 40 ‘Red Hackers’ Who Shaped China’s Cyber Ecosystem (Eugenio Benincasa – RUSI)

Between January and March 2025, the United States indicted or sanctioned individuals and companies linked to Chinese state-sponsored threat actors known as APT27, Red...

The rise of false flag conspiracy theories in moments of crises (Valeria de la Fuente – Institute for Strategic Dialogue)

False flag conspiracy theories predate the internet by decades, but the speed and volume at which they now spread is unprecedented, with claims increasing...

Online radicalization and the nexus to violence in the US: 2024 year in review (Jared Holt, Cody Zoschak, Katherine Keneally – Institute for Strategic...

In recent years, violent attacks with weapons and other acts of politically charged violence in the US have challenged longstanding frameworks used to identify...

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