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Russia’s ‘Active Measures’ Are Back with a Vengeance

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Jun 25, 2025

Crash (exploit) and burn: Securing the offensive cyber supply chain to counter China in cyberspace 

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Winnona DeSombre Bernsen

If the United States wishes to compete in cyberspace, it must compete against China to secure its offensive cyber supply chain.

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Cybersecurity

Russia’s ‘Active Measures’ Are Back with a Vengeance

New Atlanticist
Jun 5, 2025

Cyberattacks are hurting US businesses. Here’s how Congress can upgrade cybersecurity information sharing.

By
Tanner Wilburn, Sara Ann Brackett, and Urmita Chowdhury

Hackers are targeting small and medium-sized businesses, and the existing framework for sharing important information is leaving these US companies out of the loop.

Cybersecurity
Economy & Business

Russia’s ‘Active Measures’ Are Back with a Vengeance

Russia Tomorrow
May 20, 2025

Unpacking Russia’s cyber nesting doll

By
Justin Sherman

The latest report in the Atlantic Council’s Russia Tomorrow series explores Russia’s wartime cyber operations and broader cyber web.

Cybersecurity
Digital Policy

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UkraineAlert

Dec 15, 2016

Russia’s ‘Active Measures’ Are Back with a Vengeance

By Amanda Abrams

The issue of Russian hacking of American email accounts in order to influence the US presidential election reached new heights this week. President Barack Obama ordered the intelligence community to conduct a full review of Russia’s interference in the elections before he leaves office on January 20, and Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham announced […]

Cybersecurity Russia

New Atlanticist

Dec 14, 2016

A Fine Balance: Responding to Russian Cyberattacks

Russian cyberattacks on the eve of the US presidential elections clearly benefitted one candidate—Donald Trump. How to respond to this meddling is another matter altogether. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) confirmed in a secret assessment first reported by The Washington Post that Russia was involved in the cybersecurity breach of both the Democratic and Republican […]

Cybersecurity Russia

New Atlanticist

Dec 13, 2016

US Must Deliver a ‘Painful’ Response to Putin for Russian Meddling

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Former acting director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Michael Morell, on Russia, Donald Trump, and the US intelligence community There are huge national security implications of Russia’s meddling in the US presidential elections, which is why the Obama administration must deliver an overt response that is painful to Russian President Vladimir Putin, said Michael Morell, […]

Cybersecurity Russia
US Permanent Representative to NATO Ambassador Douglas Lute, December 5, 2016

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Dec 5, 2016

US Briefed NATO Allies on Foreign Hacking of the DNC

By Douglas Lute, US Mission to NATO

Ambassador Lute: [B]efore we were asked, we briefed the [North Atlantic] Council. So we brought experts from Washington and briefed on our national experience with regard to the hacking of the Democratic National Committee

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Permanent Representative to NATO Ambassador Douglas Lute, December 5, 2016

NATOSource

Dec 5, 2016

US Ambassador: NATO and EU Agree to Synchronize Hybrid Resistance, Cyber Defense, and Military Exercises

By Douglas Lute, US Mission to NATO

[T]he two organizations have agreed on 40 discreet and I think rather concrete actions that can move us forward towards better cooperation.

Cybersecurity European Union

Cyber Risk Wednesdays

Nov 30, 2016

Cyber Risk Wednesday: Software Liability—the Good, the Bad, and the Uncomfortable

By Jack Detsch, CSM Passcode

With more cars and medical devices connecting to the internet, what happens if automakers and health care companies don’t start prioritizing digital security? Many cybersecurity experts worry that faulty code in the so-called Internet of Things (IoT) won’t just cause systems to malfunction and freeze. Instead, they say, flaws inside connected cars or pacemakers could […]

Cybersecurity Internet
The interactions of the Active Cyber Defence program

NATOSource

Nov 4, 2016

UK Announces New Policy on Cyber Attacks: ‘We Will Strike Back in Kind’

By Philip Hammond, UK Government

In recognition of the risk cyber attacks pose, the government’s 2015 Strategic Defence and Security Review classified cyber as a Tier One threat to the UK – that’s the same level as terrorism, or international military conflict.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Nov 4, 2016

The Department of Defense: Facing The Barrel of a Coded Gun

By Ian Fairchild

In October, Mirai malware used default login credentials to compromise thousands of routers, digital video recorders, Internet cameras, and other Internet-connected devices. Mirai then created a botnet with the hacked hardware and targeted Dyn, a key provider of domain name services. The result wreaked havoc across the Internet, taking down several prominent websites and disrupting […]

Cybersecurity Security & Defense
Director General of the British Security Service Andrew Parker

NATOSource

Nov 2, 2016

MI5 Head: ‘Increasingly Aggressive’ Russia a Growing Threat to UK

By Ewen MacAskill and Paul Johnson, Guardian

Russia poses an increasing threat to the stability of the UK and is using all the sophisticated tools at its disposal to achieve its aims, the director general of MI5 has told the Guardian.

Cybersecurity Intelligence

In the News

Nov 1, 2016

Stifel Quoted by SC Magazine on Prosecuting Cyber Crimes

By Megan Stifel

Read full article here.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense
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Andrea Rigoni

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Trevor H. Rudolph

Nonresident Senior Fellow

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Martin Zuber

Senior US Navy Fellow

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Audrey Roh

Program Assistant

Indo-Pacific Security Initiative Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

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Yasmine Abdillahi

Nonresident Fellow

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Chinmayi Sharma

Nonresident Fellow

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