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Schiess confirmed as new Chief of Space Operations

The Senate confirmed Lt. Gen. Douglas Schiess to succeed Gen. Chance Saltzman as the new CSO.

Healthcare and Victim Support Charities Affected by Beacon Cyber Incident

Beacon has informed around 1500 customer charities that its CRM databases were accessed and likely exfiltrated by an una...

Google Links Redact Extortion Group to BlackFile Rebrand

BlackFile has rebranded as Redact after an alleged affiliate hijack, with Google linking the group to ongoing vishing an...

Ransomware Surges in July After Q2 Lull

Finance, technology and healthcare sectors were particularly heavily targeted in July, according to Comparitech

ECB publishes consolidated banking data for end-March 2026

How Can U.S. Special Operations Forces Help Defeat China on Taiwan?

It is conceivable that in one blistering campaign, the People’s Republic of China could invade, occupy, and forcibly ann...

The drone age demands a new theory of military protection

Military protection has never existed simply to keep soldiers alive or platforms intact. Its enduring purpose has always...

Latin America’s new imaginaries

Mark Leonard welcomes Adriana Abdenur and Jorge Castañeda to discuss how China is reshaping the political imagination of...

A to-do list for Australia’s new chief of the defence force

Australia has a new chief of the defence force, Admiral Mark Hammond, and here are three issues he should take on as he ...

Regulation is liberation: the case for wider Australian space laws

Australia cannot build a resilient space sector while its legal framework remains incomplete and fails to keep pace with...

The authoritarian axis looms over wars in Ukraine and Iran

China’s reported sale of shoulder-launched missile systems to Iran should be concerning not just to the United States bu...

Attacks, Deals, and Discontent

Welcome to The Adversarial. Every other week, we’ll provide you with expert analysis on America’s greatest challengers: ...

Canadian Man Pleads Guilty in Snowflake Extortions

A 26-year-old Canadian man once described as one of the most consequential cybercrime threat actors of 2024 has pleaded ...

Toolkit Hidden Inside Oracle Database Evades Endpoint Tools

Attackers used SQL injection to compile a post-exploitation toolkit inside an Oracle database

Does Latent Nuclear Deterrence Really Work?

In 2025, Matthew Fuhrmann wrote, “U.S. Allies and Adversaries Are Attempting Nuclear Deterrence Without Weapons – Will I...

Q&A: What is in China’s new five-year plan for climate change?

China has released a five-year plan dedicated to addressing climate change. The 15th five-year plan for a national respo...

Trust the numbers: Germans are open to a more hawkish China policy

ECFR polling suggests significant public support not only for tougher German policy on China but also for investment in ...

Hamas has agreed to disarm. Israel should now agree to peace

Despite all odds, there is now a realistic path towards ending the war in Gaza. Its success now depends on Israel. Europ...

TeamPCP Traced Back to 2020 Cryptojacking Operation

Oligo Security has linked TeamPCP to ShadowRay 2.0 and to cryptojacking infrastructure dating back to 2020

UNC6671 Rebrands: Multi-Brand Vishing Extortion Targets Financial Services and Enterprise Cloud Environments

Written by: Tyler McLellan, Austin Larsen Introduction Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) continues to track UNC667...

Meta Joins OpenAI and Anthropic in Reporting AI Exploit Incident

One of Meta’s AI models exploited a third-party security flaw during an evaluation, the latest in a series of similar in...

A battle for supremacy has laid Sudan and its capital to waste

The country’s future depends on events beyond its borders, as well as within them

Violent Physical Crypto Thefts Surge to $30m in Losses

So-called “wrench attacks” have resulted in $30m in losses so far in 2026, says Chainalysis

Canadian Hacker Pleads Guilty Over Snowflake Extortion Campaign

A Canadian hacker has admitted involvement in the widespread compromise of 165 Snowflake customer accounts used to steal...

Seoul’s restoration of inter-Korean railway could still reap benefits: experts

South Korea’s plan to resume work next year on restoring the southern section of the Gyeongwon Line, a railway line that...

NVIDIA Group Proposes SAFE Initiative for Agentic Threat Intel Sharing

The Open Secure AI Alliance has announced plans for the Shared AI Findings Exchange (SAFE)

North Korea launches short-range ballistic missile toward East Sea: JCS

North Korea launched a short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) toward its eastern coast late Thursday, according to South K...

The Arsenal and the Statehouse: New Defense Firms, Venture Capital and State Industrial Policy

When Anduril announced a $910 million drone production facility in Ohio, it was not politics as usual. The main message ...

63 North Korean defectors enter South in first half of 2026: Seoul

Sixty-three North Koreans defected to South Korea between January and June, a roughly 34% decline from the same period l...

The Blood Price: In Israel, Military Sacrifice Is Becoming Political Power

In late June, cadets at the Israeli military’s officer training school sat through a lecture by Ofer Winter, a retired b...

Russia to deploy North Korean missile unit and launchers to Ukraine border: Kyiv

North Korea could soon send a dedicated missile unit to a western Russian region bordering Ukraine, according to Kyiv’s ...

Learning from Ukraine: semi-autonomy can deliver combat mass

Generating operational mass in the Indo-Pacific requires new approaches to projecting, sustaining and employing military...

Housing policy should serve Australia’s strategic interests

Australia’s housing debate is too often framed as a contest between investors and first home buyers. For northern Austra...

Instrumentalised Migration and Russia’s ‘Disposable Agents’

Instrumentalised migration and Russia’s recruitment of disposable agents exploit the same European weakness: treating de...

After Ceuta, Europe is once again mired in migration chaos of its own making

Anti-immigration critics seized on the Ceuta migrant situation as evidence of the failure of soft policies, but in reali...

Fault Lines – Scarborough Shoal, South Korea at RIMPAC, shipriders

Welcome to the latest edition of ASPI’s Fault Lines. Every fortnight, ASPI’s Defence Strategy Program monitors the actio...

Beyond Hormuz: The Future of Maritime Chokepoints

Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz and efforts to extract payments for safe passage — plus, more recently, the Houth...

Fake Open VSX Extensions Harvest Private Repo and CI Data

77 counterfeit Open VSX extensions beaconed to one domain, 19 harvesting git and CI identity

There Will be Unseen Costs to be Paid over the War in Iran. Who is Weighing Them?

EXPERT INTERVIEW – With an interim agreement expected as early as today between the U.S. and Iran aimed at reopening the...

Paperclip AI Flaws Let Unauthenticated Attackers Run Commands

3 Paperclip flaws exposed data & allowed unauthenticated command execution in two deployment modes