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A primer on the proliferation of offensive cyber capabilities Issue Brief by Winnona DeSombre, Michele Campobasso, Dr. Luca Allodi, Dr. James Shires, JD Work, Robert Morgus, Patrick Howell O’Neill, and Dr. Trey Herr Executive summary Offensive cyber capabilities run the gamut from sophisticated, long-term disruptions of physical infrastructure to malware used to target human rights journalists. As these capabilities continue to proliferate with increasing complexity and to new types of actors, the im...

Thailand’s Creeping Digital Authoritarianism Since the military coup of 2014, Thailand has developed one of the most sophisticated systems of digital surveillance in Southeast Asia. By February 17, 2021 Advertisement January saw a Thai court hand down a record-breaking 43 and a half- year sentence to a Thai woman convicted of breaking the country’s infamous lese majeste law. The court based the conviction on audio clips that the woman had posted on Facebook and YouTube. The sentencing has, once again, drawn attention to the country’s lese majeste law. But it h...

Listen to This ArticleAudio Recording by Audm To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, . If ever there was a sign the United States was losing control of information warfare, of its own warriors, it was the moment one of its own, a young American contractor, saw first lady Michelle Obama’s emails pop up on his screen. For months, David Evenden, a former National Security Agency analyst, questioned what he was doing in Abu Dhabi. He, like two dozen other N.S.A. analysts and contractors, had been lured to the United Arab Emirates by a boutique Beltway contractor wi...

Follow Jan. 26, 2021 A former senior federal prosecutor in Mexico who is wanted in his own country and is also linked to alleged misuse of NSO Group’s spyware has applied for asylum in Israel, according to Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard. Tomas Zeron De Lucio is wanted in Mexico on suspicion of falsifying evidence and torturing witnesses, however his whereabouts were not known until the Mexican foriegn minister confirmed he was hiding in Israel.  Zeron is suspected of skewing an investigating into the abduction and murder of 43 students from Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College in 20...

Meet the cyber mercenaries – and the activists trying to stop them Activists have accused governments of misusing hacking tools to surveil journalists and campaigners Secretive businessmen have established a thriving global market for hacking tools It's a shadowy $12bn (£8.8bn) industry, which Microsoft President Brad Smith warned last month is booming - and poses a grave threat to both governments and business. Perhaps understandably, it’s not easy getting cyber mercenaries to talk. These secretive businessmen have established a thriving global market for hacking tools sold to govern...