From overlapping operations to the IT Army’s internal split, new clues shed light on the Cyber Corps’ ties to the GUR. By the summer of 2024, the Ukrainian military intelligence service (GUR)…
AI may help, but nonprofits still face an uphill battle in allocating resources for extensive investigations into human rights abuses. In September 2022, a hacktivist group known as Guacamaya, which targets “extractive…
When people think about what ChatGPT or other large language models are doing behind the scenes, it’s common to reach for the language of computing. You might assume there is a database,…
Generative AI can increase the quantity and quality of malign foreign influence campaigns. However, questions remain as to whether these campaigns influence public opinion. Iranian state propagandists have been using Claude to…
Once model weights are published, developers lose control. Export controls can still work—but only at the right chokepoints. On June 12, the Commerce Department issued an export control directive informing Anthropic that a license…
The U.S. needs a strategy to counter China’s leverage in cyberspace. Over the past several months, a wave of stories has emerged about cyber operations from Iran-backed hackers targeting critical infrastructure. In…
AI employees are raising concerns about an extinction-level event. But there’s a more immediate threat. Large language models. Artificial general intelligence. Sentience. The singularity. All terms that a few years ago were…
Hackers stole thousands of FBI employees’ data, including about new hires and people in sensitive roles. It’s like giving a foreign adversary a gold mine. On Sept. 23, the FBI disclosed it…
A review of Ahana Datta Fasel, “Full Stack Spies: Cyber Espionage in the Age of US-China Competition” (Hurst, 2026). Understanding what drives cyber operations—and, just as importantly, figuring out how to respond to…
With frontier AI companies’ money on the line, a mutual insurer would enforce standards, peer review incidents, and pool safety research and development. Managing frontier artificial intelligence’s (AI’s) growing risks needs an…
