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One Network, Two Systems: A Wake-Up Call Britain Can No Longer Ignore
There are reports that merely catalogue risks, and there are reports that fundamentally challenge established assumptions. One Network, Two Systems: The Research Security Risks of UK/China University Cyber Partnerships belongs firmly in the latter category. Produced by UK-China Transparency and…
Europe’s Cyber Front: How the EU Is Responding to Russia’s FSB 16th Centre
One of the European Union’s least visible security challenges is protecting its digital nervous system from some of the world’s most sophisticated intelligence services. Among the organisations that European security agencies and allied governments have repeatedly identified as a source of…
Guarding the Knowledge Frontier: Five Eyes Warn of China’s Expanding Human Intelligence Campaign
The latest security advisory jointly issued by the Five Eyes intelligence community is notable not because it reveals a new espionage technique, but because it illustrates how dramatically the battlefield of intelligence collection has shifted. Rather than clandestine meetings in…
From burning refineries to maritime blockade: a new strategy of pressure on Russia
Ukraine’s sustained strikes on Russian refineries, fuel infrastructure and maritime logistics are no longer isolated operations, but part of a wider strategy to weaken the Kremlin’s war economy, disrupt energy exports and turn Russia’s own blockade tactics back against it.…
Iran Cyber Surge Against Israel Carries Warning for Europe’s Critical Infrastructure
Israel recorded about 4,800 hostile cyber incidents in June, three times the level reported a year earlier. The surge shows why a kinetic ceasefire cannot be treated as a digital ceasefire, and why European infrastructure, professional services and smaller suppliers…
Europe Bets on Defence Innovation as Security Pressures Mount
The European Union’s drive to strengthen its security capabilities took another step forward this week as Members of the European Parliament endorsed a new programme designed to accelerate defence innovation across the bloc. The proposed initiative, known as the Programme…
Russian Ex-Combatants Are Becoming a European Security Planning Problem
European Council conclusions have asked officials to examine possible internal-security measures concerning Russian ex-combatants from the war against Ukraine, turning a buried summit clause into a practical question for borders, intelligence sharing and hybrid-threat planning.