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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

Spread of Cyber Financial Crimes Demands Better Answers

The numbers are staggering, yet only the tip of the iceberg. More than 145 million American citizens are affected by the Equifax data breach [...] More

Blockchain’s Potential Role in Constraining Future Cyber Conflict

At the RSA conference in February, Microsoft's Chief Legal Officer called for a "digital Geneva Convention" to help provide parameters on offensive [...] More

It's All About the Money

As more and more business is conducted online and cyber criminals target in on a very lucrative market, both the public and private sector face [...] More

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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