Mika Kerttunen recently published a research paper in which he argues that while cyber operations may be relatively ineffective for conducting war, their peacetime employment can contribute to the outbreak of conflict due to their violent nature.

The German Foundation for Peace Research has now published the final report on the EuRepoC predecessor project "Security through Obfuscation: Why Governments Use Proxies in Cyber Conflicts" at Heidelberg University. In the report, Sebastian Harnisch and Kerstin Zettl-Schabath present the HD-CY.CON cyberconflict dataset and shed light on autocratic and democratic proxy use in cyberspace.

Our researchers Jakob Bund, Kerstin Zettl-Schabath and Martin Müller led a workshop focusing on the complexities of cyber conflict data at the International Conference on Cyber Conflict (CyCon) on 30.05.2023.