SUBSCRIBER+ EXCLUSIVE REPORTING — With artificial intelligence getting smarter every day, cybersecurity experts, election officials and voters have been fretting about the possibility that malicious […] More
OPINION — Last December, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) declassified an Intelligence Community Assessment and a memorandum on how foreign adversaries […] More
OPINION — Trust in institutions, to include government, media, financial institutions, and education continues to decline as noted in several recent public opinion polls. Given […] More
OPINION — As we enter 2024, concerns arise regarding the potential threat generative AI poses to elections in terms of misinformation and media manipulation. The […] More
CIPHER BRIEF REPORTING — The former head of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) could scarcely be more clear in his evaluations of […] More
If Pakistan’s army and government continue to block regional and national elections, they will increase the scale of Imran Khan’s eventual victory. Fear of Imran […] More
OPINION — The Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) decisive win of all but five of the twenty-two municipal, city and county elections in Taiwan on November […] More
OPINION – On the eve of the US midterm elections, it is a good time to reflect on cyber threats to our political process, particularly […] More
Hard-line cleric Ebrahim Raisi won Iran’s presidential election on Saturday in a move that is expected to bolster the conservative legacy of the country’s supreme […] More
Peter Pascucci is a commander in the United States Navy and Kurt Sanger is a lieutenant colonel in the United States Marine Corps. They have […] More
OPINION – What’s happening today with COVID-19, from global healthcare systems under extreme stress to the far-reaching economic impact, will be felt for years to […] More
OPINION — President Trump, this past week, has shown that he is just as serious today about undercutting the intelligence community’s January 6, 2017, conclusion […] More
OPINION — President Trump is actively trying to excise the criminal fallout from investigations into Moscow’s 2016 covert support for his presidential election and have […] More
Cipher Brief Expert and former CIA Deputy Director for Counterintelligence, Mark Kelton wrote for The Cipher Brief back in 2017 that, The Man in the […] More
Bottom Line Up Front: The success of Russia’s meddling in 2016 U.S. election ensures that Moscow will employ similar disinformation efforts as 2020 approaches. […] More
OPINION — I want to talk about an African election. It was 2009 in Botswana and the ruling party, in power since independence, was not shy […] More
Russia. We hear and read about it every day in the mainstream media, but the news seems almost exclusively focused on the various investigations of […] More
Cipher Brief Note: Shiite Cleric Muqtada al-Sadr assured Iraqis this past weekend that the next Iraqi government will be ‘inclusive’. Al-Sadr, who once fought U.S. […] More
In the latter part of the 18th century, not too long after an earlier annexation of Crimea by Russia, a Russian governor by the name […] More
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