Category Security, Cyber & Counter-Threats

Security, Cyber & Counter-Threats examines the evolving landscape of digital conflict, hybrid warfare, and threat mitigation in an increasingly networked world.
This magazine covers cyber operations, information warfare, digital resilience, and security architectures shaping modern defense and intelligence ecosystems.
Designed for analysts, policymakers, and technology leaders, it delivers actionable insights into how states and non-state actors compete, defend, and adapt in the information age.

Cyber criminals favouring stealthier attacks like Cryptojacking to make free money

Enisa cryptojacking

Cyber criminals are switching away from ransomware to stealthier attacks as the main sources of generating revenue, according to analysis by British artificial intelligence (AI)-based cyber security firm Darktrace. Cryptojacking is the unauthorized use of someone else’s computer to mine…...

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DARPA SHRIMP developed microrobots for search and rescue, disaster relief, infrastructure inspection, and equipment maintenance

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Imagine a natural disaster scenario, such as an earthquake, that inflicts widespread damage to buildings and structures, critical utilities and infrastructure, and threatens human safety. Having the ability to navigate the rubble and enter highly unstable areas could prove invaluable…...

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Future Global Quantum internet could be brought down by Quantum terrorists

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Quantum cryptography is an emerging technology in which two parties may simultaneously generate shared, secret cryptographic key material using the transmission of quantum states of light. A unique aspect of quantum cryptography is that Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle ensures that if…...

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USAF Offensive Cyberspace Operations (OCO) program developed Cyber Mission Platforms, Cyber Weapons Platform & Command and Control Mission System

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The Department of Defense (DOD) defines cyberspace as a global domain within the information environment consisting of the interdependent network of information technology infrastructures and resident data, including the internet, telecommunications networks, computer systems, and embedded processors and controllers. The…...

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With rising threat of mobile malware, Mobile companies are launching secure smartphones

5 most secure smartphones in the world

The recent rise in mobile malware have made Mobile phones vulnerable to data leakage and tempering of sensitive information such as business documents, bank details, credit card information and make purchases. Malware client called Pegasus have been found that can  jailbreak…...

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Rising cyber-attacks to Small and Medium Businesses( SMB or SME) and cyber security requirements

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SMEs contribute to more than one third of GDP in emerging and developing economies and account for 34% and 52% of formal employment respectively. SMEs and young firms that experience rapid growth can have a considerable impact on employment creation…...

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Next Robot revolution is achieving Human-Like dexterous manipulation for home, Industry and Security

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Robots have already become an indispensable part of our lives. However currently, most robots are relatively rigid machines which make unnatural movements. In contrast, humans seem to be able to manipulate objects with our fingers with incredible ease like sifting…...

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Active and Passive Millimeter Wave imaging systems employed for security screening at the airports and finding landmines

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Electromagnetic waves in the millimeter-wave band  (with frequencies between 30 and 300 GHz, or wavelengths between 10 and 1.0 mm) have attractive characteristics. One of their features is the wider usable frequency band compared with waves in the microwave band or lower bands.…...

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Militaries employ ‘The mother of all bombs’ or MOABs for wiping out fortified ground targets and creating ‘shock and awe’

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The US’s  GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) is a precision-guided munition weighing 21,500 pounds and was dropped from a C-130 Hercules aircraft. The MOAB isn’t the heaviest non-nuclear bomb in the US arsenal (that’s the 30,000-pound Massive Ordinance Penetrator…...

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DARPA plans secure Blockchain technologies to create tamper-proof military computer systems

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Blockchain is a transformative technology for the two billion people in the world currently underserved by financial institutions. The technology has the potential to enhance privacy, security and freedom of conveyance of data. Blockchain is based on open, global infrastructure,…...

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