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Preparing Markets for Russian Financial Retaliation

Preparing Markets for Russian Financial Retaliation

Financial sanctions imposed on Russia since its 2014 seizure of Crimea have hit President Vladimir Putin and his cronies where it hurts most—in the [...] More

EuropeSecurity/StabilityReporting

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Malicious Cyber-Actors in the Financial Services Industry

Malicious Cyber-Actors in the Financial Services Industry

Observers around the world were shocked when news broke about a major bank heist in Bangladesh. This was no ordinary robbery though – this time, the [...] More

ReportingTech/Cyber

The Biggest Challenge: Insider Threats

The Cipher Brief sat down with Steven Grossman, VP of Strategy and Enablement at Bay Dynamics, to discuss the current cyber threat landscape facing [...] More

ReportingTech/Cyber

Unprecedented Opportunities and Vulnerabilities

Cyber threats pose a challenge to banks and firms operating in the financial sector, primarily due to the fact that “vulnerability really exists [...] More

ReportingTech/Cyber
Combatting Terrorist Financing

Combatting Terrorist Financing

As the military campaign to degrade and ultimately destroy ISIS continues to dominate U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, there is also an effort [...] More

AfricaMiddle EastAmericasReportingNorth America

The Core of the Problem

The Somalia based terror group al-Shabaab has “diversified its economy” to ensure a constant income, from kidnapping for ransom and confiscating food [...] More

EuropeAfricaReporting

Counter Threat Finance — Not a Silver Bullet

For decades, belligerent groups have financed their operations by tapping into a variety of locally available economies, including illegal ones. The [...] More

ReportingAfrica

Al Shabaab’s Adaptive Model

In mid-October, the UN Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea published its latest report confirming that despite years of effort and the recent [...] More

AfricaReporting