The 2nd Monthly Cyber & Tech Digest is out! A common thread runs through this Junr edition: attackers exploiting the things we already trust. Read on Substack: virtualroutes.substack.com/p/monthly-cyber-and-tech-digest-02

My latest for @bindinghook.bsky.social, on why Europe can't simplify its cyber politics away. bindinghook.com/europe-cant-...

Understanding modern Chinese cyber operations means shifting from ‘APT’ to composite responsibility Binding Hook bindinghook.com/understandin... @bindinghook.bsky.social

In June’s #Hooked!, Binding Hook Senior Editor @katharinegk.bsky.social looks at what a pro-Western win in Armenia’s parliamentary elections might say about the efficacy of Russian disinformation campaigns: bindinghook.com/hooked-15-ar...

The line between #cybercrime & state activity is blurring. According to European security agencies, state-backed actors are increasingly using criminal tools & tactics to hide their involvement. 🪝 Read Anne Blickhan's take on how Europe’s response needs to adapt: bindinghook.com/can-europes-...

In Anne Blickhan’s latest for Binding Hook, she examines how Europe could improve responses to APTs in a constantly changing threat environment. Once seen as instruments of states, #APTs now operate in a landscape where crime, espionage, & geopolitics overlap. bindinghook.com/can-europes-...

Have a fresh perspective worth publishing on #Cybersecurity, #AI, or #EmergingTech? We'd love to hear from you. Binding Hook features original analysis & commentary from researchers, practitioners, & policy thinkers around the world. 📩Send us a pitch at [email protected]

Chinese cyber operations no longer fit the ‘advanced persistent threat’ model. Multiple firms were involved in Salt Typhoon, and we still don’t know exactly what their roles were. 🪝 Read the full article: bindinghook.com/understandin...

In her latest for Binding Hook, @cyberoverdrive.bsky.social argues that Chinese #cyberoperations no longer fit neatly within the traditional ‘advanced persistent threat’ (APT) model and explores why composite responsibility matters. 🪝 Read the full article: bindinghook.com/understandin...

Europe’s #cybergovernance did not become fragmented by accident. Can simplification make conflicts over privacy, cost, security, & data governable, or will it keep displacing them into technical arrangements? Read @mattiasguazzini.bsky.social's article: bindinghook.com/europe-cant-...

Virtual Routes is launching VIRO Learning. VIRO Learning is a new platform offering applied education on cybersecurity and emerging technologies, with a focus on how these issues shape real-world policy and decision-making. More information: virolearning.com youtu.be/RHnKsE9VUyk?...

In his latest for Binding Hook, @virtualroutes.bsky.social European Cybersecurity Fellow @mattiasguazzini.bsky.social looks at the impact the #DigitalOmnibus and the #CybersecurityPackage might have on EU cyber: bindinghook.com/europe-cant-...

🪝 May’s Editor’s Pick at Binding Hook: Kamil Bojarski’s review of Fiona Cunningham’s Under the Nuclear Shadow, which asks if information-age weapons are a complement or substitute for nuclear deterrence. Read the article: bindinghook.com/are-informat...

Generative AI is reshaping enterprise security. LLMs can now expose sensitive data through summaries, inference and recombination, not just direct file access. How can companies adapt? Read more from @virtualroutes.bsky.social Bernhardt Fourie: bindinghook.com/defending-ag...

Universities allocated just 7% of their 2023 IT budgets to cybersecurity, compared to 11.6% across other sectors. Research institutions are being outspent on protection by almost every industry.

(1/6) Disinformation & cyber influence: selected analysis from Binding Hook With elections already in Hungary, Slovenia, and the UK (and more to come in the US), 2026 is a big year for #democracy and #disinformation. A thread of reading recommendations🧵

Treating compute concentration as a cybersecurity risk, rather than merely an industrial policy aspiration, would give Europe’s #digitalsovereignty agenda the operational substance it currently lacks. bindinghook.com/concentrated...

Looking for something to read this weekend? Check out @lawsecnet.counterintelligence.pl's review of @fiona-cunningham.bsky.social's Under the Nuclear Shadow (from @princetonupress.bsky.social) for a suggestion! bindinghook.com/are-informat...

For more on why these types of moves are necessary, read @euben.bsky.social & Max van der Horst's recent piece on the need for safe harbour protections for vulnerability research in the EU: bindinghook.com/europe-forge...

Looking for something to read this weekend? Check out @lawsecnet.counterintelligence.pl's review of @fiona-cunningham.bsky.social's Under the Nuclear Shadow (from @princetonupress.bsky.social) for a suggestion! bindinghook.com/are-informat...

Treating compute concentration as a cybersecurity risk, rather than merely an industrial policy aspiration, would give Europe’s #digitalsovereignty agenda the operational substance it currently lacks. bindinghook.com/concentrated...

In May’s Hooked!, Binding Hook senior editor @katharinegk.bsky.social explores a recent breakthrough in a cyber cold case and suggests some further Binding Hook reading on state-backed cyber operations. bindinghook.com/hooked-14-ar...

In May’s Hooked!, Binding Hook senior editor @katharinegk.bsky.social explores a recent breakthrough in a cyber cold case and suggests some further Binding Hook reading on state-backed cyber operations. bindinghook.com/hooked-14-ar...

(1/6) Disinformation & cyber influence: selected analysis from Binding Hook With elections already in Hungary, Slovenia, and the UK (and more to come in the US), 2026 is a big year for #democracy and #disinformation. A thread of reading recommendations🧵

‘Cybersecurity strategy must extend beyond endpoint protection and incident response to encompass the structural economics of the infrastructure layer itself,’ argues @VirtualRoutes fellow Joel Christoph: bindinghook.com/concentrated...

For some ideas about how the EU can prevent this, check out these suggestions from Gijs van Loon, Apolline Rolland, @jamesshires.bsky.social and @maxwsmeets.bsky.social: bindinghook.com/why-europe-m...

The concentration of computing infrastructure in the hands of a small number of non-European providers is a #cybersecurity risk. @virtualroutes.bsky.social fellow Joel Christoph looks at the details: bindinghook.com/concentrated... #EuropeanSecurity #DigitalSovereignty #CloudComputing

For some ideas about how the EU can prevent this, check out these suggestions from Gijs van Loon, Apolline Rolland, @jamesshires.bsky.social and @maxwsmeets.bsky.social: bindinghook.com/why-europe-m...

The UN's new cybersecurity body is almost one month old. What challenges will it face as it starts to get to work? bindinghook.com/from-launch-...

‘Deterrence under Uncertainty’ is worth reading for its unusual combination of technical seriousness and conceptual restraint. It offers a disciplined way to think about emerging technologies in a domain where overconfidence has always been especially dangerous. bindinghook.com/ai-wont-clea...

In their latest for Binding Hook, Joyce Hakmeh & Harriet Moynihan investigate what it actually takes to close the #CyberProxy accountability gap & laid out strategies for holding users of cyber proxies accountable. Read the full article: bindinghook.com/strategic-co... #CyberConflict #Geopolitics

🪝 April Editor’s Pick at Binding Hook: Jelle van Haaster, PhD's exploration of insecurity in the cybersecurity field, and how professionals can learn to cope in an environment of constant threats. bindinghook.com/coping-with-...

A must-read on China's strategy. In his latest for Binding Hook, Kamil Bojarski calls Cunningham's 'Under the Nuclear Shadow' "essential" for understanding how non-nuclear weapons reshape escalation. 🔗 bindinghook.com/are-information-age-weapons-a-complement-or-substitute-for-nuclear-deterrence/

🪝 April Editor’s Pick at Binding Hook: Jelle van Haaster, PhD's exploration of insecurity in the cybersecurity field, and how professionals can learn to cope in an environment of constant threats. bindinghook.com/coping-with-...

A must-read on China's strategy. In his latest for Binding Hook, Kamil Bojarski calls Cunningham's 'Under the Nuclear Shadow' "essential" for understanding how non-nuclear weapons reshape escalation. 🔗 bindinghook.com/are-information-age-weapons-a-complement-or-substitute-for-nuclear-deterrence/

In their latest for Binding Hook, Joyce Hakmeh & Harriet Moynihan investigate what it actually takes to close the #CyberProxy accountability gap & laid out strategies for holding users of cyber proxies accountable. Read the full article: bindinghook.com/strategic-co... #CyberConflict #Geopolitics

Binding Hook's April newsletter is landing soon. Some questions we're posing: 🔹 Can the UN's new cyber body beat geopolitics? 🔹 Will AI help/hinder nuclear decision-making? 🔹 How do defenders cope with cyber insecurity? ...and several more! 📬 Subscribe to get the answers: mailchi.mp/bindinghook....

‘Deterrence under Uncertainty’ is worth reading for its unusual combination of technical seriousness and conceptual restraint. It offers a disciplined way to think about emerging technologies in a domain where overconfidence has always been especially dangerous. bindinghook.com/ai-wont-clea...

The UN's new cybersecurity body is almost one month old. What challenges will it face as it starts to get to work? bindinghook.com/from-launch-...

Europe is building stronger systems to report vulnerabilities, but it risks overlooking the people who discover the flaws first: independent security researchers, write @euben.bsky.social and Max van der Horst: bindinghook.com/europe-forge... #EUcybersecurity

NIS2 strengthens cybersecurity obligations across sectors, but largely excludes research institutions. Generic guidance is no match for long-dwell espionage and intellectual property theft. bindinghook.com/policy-failu...

This month’s #Hooked dives into #AI mythmaking, where uncertainty invites both hype and fear to outrun evidence, shaping how we interpret and govern systems like Claude. So, what’s real, and what’s projection? 🪝 Read the full Hooked!: bindinghook.com/hooked-13-cl...

‘The success of the new forum, however, will largely depend on how states address two familiar challenges from the outset: balancing consensus with efficiency and focusing on implementation rather than adding new commitments.’ Read more about the new UN mechanism: bindinghook.com/from-launch-...

‘The success of the new forum, however, will largely depend on how states address two familiar challenges from the outset: balancing consensus with efficiency and focusing on implementation rather than adding new commitments.’ Read more about the new UN mechanism: bindinghook.com/from-launch-...

"Even if AI enhances data collection & analysis, the battlefield will not become transparent." In this Book Binder, Di Lân Ngô unpacks Edward Geist’s 'Deterrence under Uncertainty', a reminder that the fog of nuclear war isn't going anywhere. Read the book review: bindinghook.com/ai-wont-clea...

In her latest for Binding Hook, @virtualroutes.bsky.social fellow Christina Rupp examines the challenges facing the new #UN Global Mechanism on #ICT Security, as well as pathways to success. What does it take to make it actually work? Read the full article: bindinghook.com/from-launch-...

In her latest for Binding Hook, @virtualroutes.bsky.social fellow Christina Rupp examines the challenges facing the new #UN Global Mechanism on #ICT Security, as well as pathways to success. What does it take to make it actually work? Read the full article: bindinghook.com/from-launch-...

"Even if AI enhances data collection & analysis, the battlefield will not become transparent." In this Book Binder, Di Lân Ngô unpacks Edward Geist’s 'Deterrence under Uncertainty', a reminder that the fog of nuclear war isn't going anywhere. Read the book review: bindinghook.com/ai-wont-clea...

This month’s #Hooked dives into #AI mythmaking, where uncertainty invites both hype and fear to outrun evidence, shaping how we interpret and govern systems like Claude. So, what’s real, and what’s projection? 🪝 Read the full Hooked!: bindinghook.com/hooked-13-cl...

(1/6)🛡️𝗖𝘆𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗮𝗴𝗲: selected analysis from Binding Hook AI is rapidly reshaping the cyber domain. But beyond the hype, what actually matters? A thread with 5 sharp takes on #cybersecurity × #AI 👇