Our monthly briefings summarise the key trends, dynamics, and findings on cyber incidents as recorded by EuRepoC in a given month. The April 2023 briefing is available here. The German edition is published in collaboration with the Tagesspiegel Cybersecurity Background, accessible here.

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.