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Salt Typhoon: China's Silent Breach of U.S. Telecommunications
In cyber conflict, the most dangerous actor is the one already inside. Salt Typhoon-a cyberespionage campaign attributed to China’s...
2 days ago


Embedded Access: GRU Unit 26165 Targeting Western Logistics and Tech Infrastructure
On May 21, 2025, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), in collaboration with allied partners, issued Advisory AA25-141A. It confirms an ongoing cyberespionage campaign by Russia’s GRU Unit 26165 (APT28, also known as Fancy Bear), targeting logistics and technology networks directly tied to Western support for Ukraine.
This is not speculative. These actors are inside operational networks right now.
2 days ago


Mapping Invisible Hands: How Stakeholder and Influence Mapping Can Reshape Market Strategy
One of the first lessons in intelligence is that power rarely sits where it appears on paper. The same applies in the private sector....
5 days ago


Embedded Threats: Chinese 'Kill Switches' in U.S. Energy Infrastructure
The U.S. energy grid-already strained by modernization challenges-is now facing a far more insidious threat: embedded foreign access...
5 days ago


The Weakest Link: How Social Engineering Still Outsmarts the Best Cyber Defenses
In the intelligence community, we were trained to think asymmetrically. Why attack hardened systems when you can exploit the humans who...
7 days ago


Influence Operations in the Age of AI: Covert Influence or Open Manipulation?
In the Intelligence Community, we always understood that the tools of influence were evolving faster than most policymakers could keep...
7 days ago
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