Intelligence

Senator warns China could obtain Americans’ genetic data through 23andMe sale (Suzanne Smally, The Record)

Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy on Tuesday sent Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent a letter raising alarms about the possibility that genetic data belonging to more...

Seabed sensors and mapping: what China’s survey ship could be up to (Euan Graham, Ray Powell – The Strategist)

Civilian exploration may be the official mission of a Chinese deep-sea research ship that sailed clockwise around Australia over the past week and is...

Australia’s cyber strategy needs a vulnerability disclosure upgrade (Adam Dobell, Ilona Cohen – The Strategist)

Australia is in a race against time. Cyber adversaries are exploiting vulnerabilities faster than we can identify and patch them. Both national security and...

How Will Artificial Intelligence Impact Battlefield Operations? (David Kirichenko, Lawfare)

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming industries at an unprecedented pace. The business of warfare is no exception. Nations are already...

NCSC shares technical details of spyware targeting Uyghur, Tibetan and Taiwanese groups (Suzanne Smalley – The Record)

The U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre and international cybersecurity and intelligence agencies on Wednesday said hackers are deploying two forms of previously identified spyware...

To tackle espionage, Dutch government plans to screen university students and researchers (Alexander Martin, The Record)

The Dutch government plans to introduce a vetting regime for researchers and students “who want to gain access to parts of Dutch knowledge institutions...

Canada says China-linked information campaign spreading false narratives about prime minister (Daryna Antoniuk, The Record)

A China-linked information campaign is using a network of WeChat accounts to attack Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney ahead of the country’s upcoming federal...

Czech prime minister says his X account was hacked ‘from abroad’ (Daryna Antoniuk, The Record)

The Czech prime minister’s account on the social media platform X was hacked on Tuesday, with a series of false messages posted, including those...

Connecting “Cyber Diplomacy” to “Cyber Deterrence” (James Siebens, Allison Pytlak – Stimson Center)

The scale of cyber operations today has reached unprecedented levels, with state-sponsored actors, criminal syndicates, and independent hackers launching increasingly sophisticated attacks against critical...

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