December 21, 2018
CybersecurityThis week: the Justice Department charges Chinese hackers, Huawei faces international scrutiny, two Senate reports investigate Russian disinformation, and someone hacked the European Union's diplomat…
October 25, 2018
CybersecurityAn update of the Council on Foreign Relations' Cyber Operations Tracker for the period between July and September 2018.
August 20, 2018
CybersecurityAn update of the Council on Foreign Relations' Cyber Operations Tracker for the period between April and July 2018.
March 13, 2017
CybersecurityLorand Laskai is a research associate in Asia studies program at the Council on Foreign Relations. You can follow him @lorandlaskai. Only hours after China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) rele…
December 29, 2016
CybersecurityMove over Comment Panda and Putter Panda, make way for Fancy Bear and Cozy Bear. 2016 was the year Russian hackers pushed their Chinese counterparts out of the limelight, becoming a major focus of th…
October 24, 2016
CybersecurityMax Smeets is a D.Phil candidate and cyber research affiliate at the University of Oxford. His work analyzes the proliferation of cyber weapons. Cybersecurity firms, despite their increasing promine…
April 19, 2016
Sub-Saharan AfricaThis is a guest post by Allen Grane, research associate for the Council on Foreign Relations Africa Studies program. In early April, South Africa issued its first sovereign bond in over two years. T…
June 3, 2015
CybersecurityLast week, SkyEye, Qihoo 360’s threat intelligence service, released a report entitled OceanLotus. The report describes the working of an APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) group engaged for at least t…
June 12, 2015
ChinaAshlyn Anderson, Lincoln Davidson, Lauren Dickey, Darcie Draudt, William Piekos, and Ariella Rotenberg look at the top stories in Asia today. 1. China’s ex-domestic security chief Zhou Yongkang to s…
August 15, 2014
RussiaAshlyn Anderson, Lauren Dickey, Darcie Draudt, Andrew Hill, Will Piekos, and Sharone Tobias look at the top stories in Asia today. 1. Pope Francis draws thousands on his first trip to Asia. Pope Fra…