In 2016, when Russian operatives used carefully crafted personas to infiltrate American political networks, their success relied on principles that Kevin Mitnick had codified decades...
In October 2023, the Centre for Information Resilience documented how YouTube’s recommendation algorithm systematically guided users from mainstream political content to increasingly extreme ideological material...
SITUATION ASSESSMENT In October 2023, researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute documented a cognitive overload campaign targeting European voters during regional elections. The operation flooded...
SITUATION ASSESSMENT In February 2022, as Russian forces massed on Ukraine’s border, a parallel offensive was already underway in cyberspace. Analysis by the Stanford Internet...
SITUATION ASSESSMENT In December 2020, cybersecurity firm FireEye reported discovering one of the most sophisticated attribution operations in recent history: the SolarWinds supply chain attack....
SITUATION ASSESSMENT: The Information Integrity Crisis In October 2023, researchers at the Stanford Internet Observatory documented a sophisticated manipulation campaign targeting European audiences through coordinated...
SITUATION ASSESSMENT In February 2022, security researchers at the Stanford Internet Observatory documented a coordinated influence operation targeting audiences across 16 countries through a network...
SITUATION ASSESSMENT In October 2023, cybersecurity researchers at DarkTrace documented a 3,000% increase in deepfake-enabled social engineering attacks targeting financial institutions over an 18-month period....
SITUATION ASSESSMENT In 2016, Cambridge Analytica harvested Facebook data from 87 million users to build psychological profiles for political advertising. Open-source evidence from the Facebook-Cambridge...