Energy Leverage and Strategic Competition: Oil Disruptions and the Shifting US-China Balance The global energy landscape in 2026 is shifting in ways that favor the United States in the short term. The US is now the world’s largest producer of oil and natural gas, while China remains the la…

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A Technical Post-Mortem of the Notepad++ Supply Chain Compromise The modern software supply chain is built on a foundation of implicit trust; a trust that users and systems place in update mechanisms to deliver secure patches. When this trust is weaponized, the …

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DynoWiper and the Polish Energy Sector In late-December 2025, the Polish energy sector was targeted by a coordinated series of destructive cyberattacks using a new malware tracked as DynoWiper [1]. The operation affected over 30 renewab…

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Venezuela’s Drug Trade and the Geopolitical Chessboard of Latin America Venezuela’s Role in LATAM as a Narco-State Venezuela has increasingly become a narco-state where high-level officials enable drug trafficking to sustain their power. US authorities accuse Nic…

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US Intelligence Support Amplifies Ukraine’s Deep Strike Campaign On Russian Energy Infrastructure A recent Financial Times report revealed that the US has quietly provided intelligence support to enable Ukraine’s long-range strikes on Russian energy infrastructure, marking a significant evoluti…

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Adversaries Intensify Scanning and Brute Force Activity Against Perimeter Devices On 3 October 2025, GreyNoise reported a ~500% increase in unique IPs scanning Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect/PAN-OS login portals, the highest level in 90 days; open-source coverage between 4–8 O…

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Leaked Files Expose Iranian Charming Kitten Operations The KittenBusters repository publicly discloses internal materials tied to the Iranian APT known as Charming Kitten (IRGC-IO Counterintelligence Unit 1500). The disclosures include official documen…

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Chinese Military Modernization & Regional Security: Intelligence Summary 6 September 2025 – 13 September 2025 China Criticizes Canadian And Australian Warships Transiting Taiwan Strait – 6 SEPT 2025 Reuters (BEIJING) – Beijing criticized the passage of Canadian an…

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Russian MiG-31s Violate NATO Airspace Summary: On 19 September 2025, three Russian MiG-31 fighters violated Estonian airspace near Vaindloo Island, remaining inside NATO territory for about twelve minutes before being intercepted by It…

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Disrupting Cartels: A Multi-Approach Strategy Military raids and high-profile arrests make headlines, but they do not end the business of cartels. Mexican and South American trafficking organizations operate like multinational corporations: di…

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Boeing Labor Tensions Signal Broader Vulnerabilities in the Defense Industrial Base More than 3,200 union workers at Boeing’s fighter jet plants in the St. Louis area have rejected a new contract proposal, triggering a countdown to a possible strike starting 4 August. Boeing has a…

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Iranian APTs and the Next Phase of Infrastructure Risk In the wake of escalating tensions in the Middle East this past spring, Iranian state-sponsored hackers turned their focus toward a new frontier: US critical infrastructure. From May through June 2…

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[Case Study] Turkey’s Nuclear Energy Development Proliferation Risk Profile Preface This document is a strategic nonproliferation analysis modeled after the IAEA’s State Evaluation Report (SER) format. Developed as part of an academic project, it assesses a specific countr…

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US-Led Strikes on Iranian Nuclear Sites: Fallout for China’s Influence and Regional Nuclear Strategy Background: Operation Midnight Hammer On 13 June 2025, Israel launched a surprise air offensive against Iran, bombing a series of nuclear and military installations after alleging Tehran was on the…

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Israel’s Strike on Iran and the Future of Regional Stability In the early hours of 13 June 2025, Israel launched its most significant direct assault on Iran in modern history. Codenamed Operation Rising Lion, the campaign marked a sharp turn in the long-runn…

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Russia’s Digital Playbook: Targeting Poland’s Election with Anti-Ukrainian Disinformation As Poland approached a critical presidential runoff on June 1, Russian-linked influence networks ramped up efforts to flood Polish social media with anti-Ukrainian messaging. The Institute for Stra…

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Hidden Bear: How GRU Unit 29155 Evolved Into a Cyber Sabotage Force Disclaimer: This post is based on unclassified, open-source reporting and reflects my personal analysis and interpretations. The views expressed here are my own and do not represent the views or po…

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Shortcut to Superpower? Rethinking Intelligence and Learning in the Age of AI If I can get the information faster and more efficiently with AI, is that really a bad thing? In national security, cyber defense, and intelligence work, speed and accuracy aren’t luxuries, t…

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[Deep Dive] Cyber Tactics and Counterterrorism Post-9/11 Disclaimer: This research uses data derived from open-source materials like public intelligence assessments, government publications, and think tank reports. This report is based solely on my perso…

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[Brief] Russia’s Void Blizzard Targets the West’s Digital Backbone Microsoft Threat Intelligence has surfaced a new Russia-affiliated cyber actor: Void Blizzard, also tracked as LAUNDRY BEAR. Active since at least April 2024, this group is focused on long-term esp…

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Romania Authorizes Military to Shoot Down Drones, Conduct Operations in Peacetime - Militarnyi Romania enacted new laws allowing its armed forces to shoot down enemy drones and carry out military operations during peacetime.

Romania has enacted new laws allowing its armed forces to shoot down enemy drones and carry out military operations on national territory during peacetime.

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[INTSUM] Doppelgänger Was Just the Beginning Rethinking Russian Influence Operations in the Age of Weaponized Visibility Earlier this month, Sweden’s Psychological Defence Agency and Lund University released Beyond Operation Doppelgänger, a 2…

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Pakistan wields Chinese weapons against India, and analysts take notes Besides long-range aerial fights, both sides also launched drones and cruise missiles against enemy infrastructure, bringing air-defense systems into play.

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How AI voicebots threaten the psyche of US service members and spies Artificial intelligence voice agents with a wide range of capabilities can now guide interrogations worldwide, Pentagon officials told Defense News.

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[OPINION] Asymmetric Cyber Threats: Lessons from Guerrilla Warfare The Digital Guerrilla When you think of cyber warfare, you often imagine digital equivalents of tanks, missiles, and grand battles between major powers. In reality, however, the cyber conflict we s…

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[INTSUM] The Escalation of GRU Unit 29155: Espionage and Sabotage Tactics Background Russian GRU military intelligence Unit 29155 (aka Cadet Blizzard, Ember Bear, FrozenVista, UNC2589) is a covert subunit of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces o…

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[RESEARCH] Future Military Challenges: Beyond the Big Four Adversaries Disclaimer: This research project uses data derived from open-source materials like public intelligence assessments, government publications, and think tank reports. This report is based solely on …

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[INTSUM] COLDRIVER’s New LOSTKEYS Malware Targets Western Officials Summary Between Jan and Apr 2025, suspected Russian FSB-linked threat group COLDRIVER delivered LOSTKEYS malware using a fake CAPTCHA to target Western officials, journalists, think tanks, and NGOs…

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