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Information Warfare

Top U.S. Commanders See Major Pacific Risks

Top U.S. Commanders See Major Pacific Risks

CIPHER BRIEF REPORTING — A pair of top U.S. military commanders warned Congress last week of dangers in their areas of operations which could factor [...] More

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Russian Infowar Targets Transatlantic Bonds

Russian Infowar Targets Transatlantic Bonds

The West’s coordinated expulsion of more than 150 Russian diplomats in response to the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal is a sign, perhaps, of a [...] More

Could AI-Driven Info Warfare Be Democracy’s Achilles Heel?

Ripped out of the pages of science fiction novels, artificially intelligent, self-aware weapons systems could become a global existential threat, if [...] More
Terabit Army: China Squares up on the Battlefield of Information

Terabit Army: China Squares up on the Battlefield of Information

The People’s Republic of China has not fought a war since 1979, but the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has been a very close student of other [...] More

Russia Aims to 'Demoralize and Confuse Us'

Much has been written about Russia’s interference in the 2016 election – the theft and selective leaking of information, the attempt to tamper with [...] More

Russian Active Measures and the 2016 Election Hack

They say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Funny, that. The Soviet and Russian [...] More

Exposing Russian Interference - The Value of Real-Time Forensics

Russian President Vladimir Putin has sought to exploit open and free U.S. cyberspace, which serves as a force multiplier for commerce and freedom of [...] More
Fixing the Foreign Agents Registration Act

Fixing the Foreign Agents Registration Act

The blowback over forcing Russian news outlets “Russia Today” (RT) and “Sputnik” to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) has [...] More
How Cyber Gray-Ops Became the New Norm in the Middle East

How Cyber Gray-Ops Became the New Norm in the Middle East

Cyber-enabled information operations in the Gulf, such as the one that seemingly spurred the ongoing feud between Qatar and its neighbors, represent [...] More
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Best Of: What Dirt Does Russia Have on You?

For this year’s Thanksgiving Day feature, The Cipher Brief revisits its coverage of the Kremlin’s strategic use of blackmail to silence dissent at [...] More

WikiLeaks and the Trump Campaign: Another Tree in the Forest

The revelation that Donald Trump Jr. was in contact with WikiLeaks throughout the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign is just the latest in a long [...] More
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Governments Turn Social Media into a Weapon Worldwide

Internet freedom took a nosedive over the last year, with governments doing more than ever to spread disinformation on social media and attacks in [...] More
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Maskirovka: Russia’s Gray Zone Between Peace and War

While all militaries seek to lead enemies astray, Russia’s military doctrine of deception – known as maskirovka, Russian for “masking” or [...] More