This joint FBI and CISA advisory is essentially an update on the activity of the ransomware gang Scattered Spider which was attributed with the MGM attack in September of this year. Scattered …
Cyber War: Power, Prestige, International Governance, and Strategy in the Age of Global Polycrisis
Competing cyber capabilities (on a spectrum from nation-state to non-state actors alike) and cyber-based conflict will continue to restructructure, reformulate, discombobulate, and transform the very …
New Hacking Group Takes Down Russian Telecom Satellite in Support of Prigozhin’s Wagner Group
Last weekend, the primary risk awareness variable we encouraged our readership to track based on the recent events in Russia was the following: "The information threat vectors and cyber attack …
Russian Cyber War: An Elite Russian Hacker Spells Out His Vision for “Information Confrontation in World Politics”
Editor’s note: This post by Dr. Bilyana Lilly provides insights into an aspect of Russia’s information warfare activities. Dr. Lilly, part of the OODA Network, is the author of the book Russian …
Microsoft, CISA, NSA, FBI, and the Five Eyes on the PRC’s Advanced Persistent Threat: Volt Typhoon
In his post earlier this week, OODA Loop Contributor Emilio Iasiello provided the initial coverage of a “cluster of activity” linked to China, targeting networks across U.S. critical infrastructures …
Ukraine is a Master Class in Cyber Defense and a Real-time AI Accelerator
In March 2022, at the onset of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, OODA Loop CTO Bob Gourley posited a working thesis that We Are In The First Open Source Intelligence War. A year and change into the …
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The U.S. Turns Strategic Focus Towards Cyber Threat Vectors in Guam, Albania, and Costa Rica
There are no coincidences: The recent arrival of 4 B-52 bombers in Guam - along with the Marines and the official opening in January of a reactivated, expanded U.S. military base on the U.S. …
The Cost Of Ignoring Cyberwar
Nowadays, “cyber” is used mainly as a prefix for other words that converts anything to something to do with the internet, such as cybercrime, cyberbullying, Cyber Monday, and our topic, cyberwar. The …
100 Episodes of OODAcast: Providing actionable insights for future risks and opportunities.
In 2020, we launched the OODAcast video and podcast series designed to provide insightful analysis and actionable intelligence to decision makers. In this 100th episode, co-hosts Matt Devost and Bob …
The Cyber Mercenary Business is Booming
A recent report revealed several private sector Indian companies that have been involved in using corporate cyber espionage tactics against entities involved in litigation in an effort to influence …
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