A Confession Exposes India’s Secret Hacking Industry

In the summer of 2020, Jonas Rey, a private investigator in Geneva, got a call from a client with a hunch. The client, the British law firm Burlingtons, represented an Iranian-born American entrepreneur, Farhad Azima, who believed that someone had Read More …

China issues report on U.S. CIA’s cyberattacks on other countries

China on Thursday released an investigation report revealing an “empire of hackers” of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States, one of the major intelligence agencies of the country’s federal government. Over a long period, the CIA has Read More …

China revises Counter-Espionage Law, defining cyber-attacks against state organs as spy activities

The 14th National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee passed an amendment to the Counter-Espionage Law on Wednesday. The revised law refines the definition of espionage activities, explicitly categorizing “collaborating with spy organizations and their agents” and “conducting cyber-attacks against state Read More …

Fog of war: how the Ukraine conflict transformed the cyber threat landscape

Nearly one year ago, Russia invaded Ukraine, and we continue to see cyber operations play a prominent role in the war. To provide more insights into the role of cyber, today, we are releasing our report Fog of War: How Read More …

AI cyber attacks are a ‘critical threat’. This is how NATO is countering them

Artificial intelligence (AI) is playing a massive role in cyber attacks and is proving both a “double-edged sword” and a “huge challenge,” according to NATO. “Artificial intelligence allows defenders to scan networks more automatically, and fend off attacks rather than Read More …

Reassessing cyberwarfare. Lessons learned in 2022

At this point, it has become cliché to say that nothing in 2022 turned out the way we expected. We left the COVID-19 crisis behind hoping for a long-awaited return to normality and were immediately plunged into the chaos and Read More …

Cloudflare finds a way through China’s network defences

Cloudflare has found a way to extend some of its services across the Great Firewall and into mainland China. “Performance and reliability for traffic flows across the mainland China border have been a consistent challenge for IT teams within multinational Read More …

Australian Cyber Task Force Looks to “Hack the Hackers” After Data Breach Crime Wave

A recent string of data breaches has prompted rapid changes to Australia’s cybersecurity and data protection policies, and the latest development appears to be a cyber task force set to “hack back” and actively pursue what Minister for Home Affairs Read More …