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Salt Typhoon: Churning Up a Storm of Consternation
Public knowledge of the Salt Typhoon intrusions has been driven by the media, while the government and private-sector cybersecurity companies appear to…
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China’s Trump Cards for Trump 2.0
As China braces for upcoming US challenges, cyber escalation is likely
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Ransom-War in Real Time, Final Case Study: Tumultuous 2021
What do Russia's low-trust political culture and Putin's "zero-sum sovereignty" have to do with Colonial Pipeline?
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i-SOON: Another Company in the APT41 Network
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Troll Humor
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Flax Typhoon-Linked Company Integrity Technology: a Competitor, Business Partner and Client of i-SOON
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The Red Dragon Searches for Pearls Through Quantum Tunneling – But You’ve Got the Wrong Paper
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Matrix Cup: Cultivating Top Hacking Talent, Keeping Close Hold on Results
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Front Company or Real Business in China’s Cyber Operations
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It's Not Magic: Making Your Choice is Powerful
Just as authoritarian governments are not monolithic, politics in democratic societies should be a common effort; please vote!
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The Red Dragon Searches for Pearls Through Quantum Tunneling – But You’ve Got the Wrong Paper
A September paper, soon hushed up, shows Chinese researchers may have discovered a class of quantum-annealing algorithm capable of attacking…
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Ransom-War and Russian Political Culture: Trust, Corruption, and Putin's Zero-Sum Sovereignty
Recent Western government revelations about EvilCorp flesh out how Russian ransomware actors and the Russian government use each other to navigate a…
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Business Priorities of Chinese Cyber Range Providers Go Hand in Hand with State Cyber Capability Development
China’s cyber range market booms, fueled by the state’s demand for developing capable cyber talent and improving the effectiveness of “attack and…
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Chinese Threat Groups That Use Ransomware and Ransomware Groups That Use Chinese Names
Chinese threat groups are increasingly deploying ransomware for political reasons –but not all Chinese-named ransomware groups are Chinese
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Flax Typhoon-Linked Company Integrity Technology: a Competitor, Business Partner and Client of i-SOON
First i-SOON, then Integrity Tech: How many more Chinese information security companies lie behind Chinese state cyber threat campaigns?
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RansomWar in Real Time, Case Study 2: Louisiana and Norsk Hydro, 2019
Two disruptive ransomware campaigns from 2019 show possible signs of Russian state involvement in choice of targets and timing -- and even in malware…
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Ransom-War In Real Time, Case Study 1: Conti, EvilCorp and Cozy Bear
In 2020-2021 the Conti and EvilCorp ransomware groups helped Russian intelligence with espionage and possibly a hack-and-leak operation. Could they be…
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Reconnaissance Scanning Tools Used by Chinese Threat Actors and Those Available in Open Source
China has its own ecosystem of scanning tools, whether for good or ill.
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