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Expert Q&A: Undersea Cables Under Attack, from Outside and Within

EXPERT Q&A — Reports of damage to undersea cables across the world are on the rise, with suspected foul play in many of these incidents. These cables [...] More

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Taiwan Faces China Threats From Sea and Cyber

Taiwan Faces China Threats From Sea and Cyber

EXPERT INTERVIEW — While much of the world’s attention in recent weeks has been on Europe, and the U.S. tilt to Russia in its pursuit for an end to [...] More

Tariffs Overlook Gray Zone Threats Posed by China

OPINION — The recent tariffs against China are obviously getting a lot of attention. China is a major trading partner, so the idea of an escalating [...] More

How is War Fought in the Gray Zone?

Beth Sanner is a principal member of The Cipher Brief’s Gray Zone Group, a gathering of experts focused on raising awareness of adversarial [...] More

NSA Director: Salt Typhoon 'Not the Highest-end Operation That We've Seen'

CYBER INTERVIEW – National Security Agency (NSA) Director General Timothy Haugh said Thursday that U.S. cyber defenses didn’t see China’s recent [...] More

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Top U.S. Cybersecurity Official: China Attacks on American Infrastructure ‘Tip of the Iceberg’

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW — A top U.S. cybersecurity official said Wednesday that as she prepares to leave office, China-backed attacks on American [...] More

Undersea Sabotage Threatens Cables Connecting the World

EXPERT INTERVIEW — Deep in the Baltic Sea, two undersea fiber-optic telecommunications cables — linking Finland to Germany and Sweden to Lithuania — [...] More

Cyber Threat to US Critical Infrastructure: Dangers in ‘Weakest Links’

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS — As the cyber threat environment grows more complex and daunting by the day, the U.S. intelligence community is racing to [...] More

Next U.S. President Must Draw Red Lines For Infrastructure Cyberattacks 

OPINION — As America nears the home stretch of the 2024 election, the sound and fury of political discourse has obscured a national security matter [...] More

Cybersecurity Official: Many Water Facilities Still Unaware of Threat - and Unprepared

Cybersecurity Official: Many Water Facilities Still Unaware of Threat - and Unprepared

SUBSCRIBER+ EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW — Last week The Cipher Brief published a look at the threat to the nation’s water supply posed by cyberattacks – an [...] More

What are Adversaries Doing in the U.S. Water Supply?

What are Adversaries Doing in the U.S. Water Supply?

BOTTOM LINE UP FRONT — It’s a serious threat to the nation’s critical infrastructure that not enough people are talking about. That’s the view of [...] More