Cyberattacks
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Germany’s Proposed Hack-Back Powers and Outsourced Surveillance Are Testing Constitutional Limits
Germany's proposed cyber and surveillance reforms risk enabling intelligence services to watch — and act — in secret.

Series: Comparing National Trends in Cyber and Surveillance Expansion
Introducing a series on the expansion of cyber and surveillance powers convened by the Atlantic Council in partnership with Just Security.

Foreign Threats to U.S. Elections Are Maturing Faster Than the Defenses to Counter Them
It is uncertain whether the U.S. election-security system can adapt at the same pace as foreign capabilities are expanding.

The Mythos of Digital Sovereignty
AI models such as Anthropic's Claude Mythos raise questions about access to frontier AI and institutional capacity.

When Intelligence Becomes a Strategic Asset: Frontier AI, Sandbox Breakouts, and the Case for Independent Oversight
Advanced AI systems have crossed an important threshold from commercial software to technologies viewed as strategic national assets.

Persecution by Other Means: Mexico and the First Test of the ICC’s Cyber Policy
A new report finds that the Mexican government's actions against journalists from 2018 to 2024 could constitute grounds to investigate the crime of persecution.

AI-Cyber Operations: A New Frontier for Public-Private Partnerships
For the United States to take the lead in AI cyber operations capabilities, government and industry must create appropriate safeguards.

Antitrust Uncertainty and AI Security Collaboration: A Targeted Bipartisan Proposal
A proposed bill would help ensure that antitrust law does not deter legitimate collaboration on mitigating AI security risks.

Too Dangerous to Deploy: Anthropic’s Mythos and What Comes Next
Mythos is a harbinger of the dilemmas that AI companies & governments will face in enabling the safe adoption of progressively more powerful models.

Cybersecurity Meets Geopolitics at Top EU Court
An upcoming ruling at the Court of Justice of the EU will shape the course of European cyber and ICT supply chain security regulation.

The Case for Imposing Costs on China’s AI Distillation Campaigns
The U.S. government should respond to Chinese AI adversarial distillation attacks with a layered set of established legal authorities.

When AI Runs the Operations: Autonomous Agents and the Future of Cyber Competition
Stakeholders have a narrowing window to shape what comes next with highly autonomous cyber-capable AI agents—before capabilities increase further and incentives harden.