Annegret Bendiek and Jakob Bund published a piece on European cyber defence and the necessity of clearly communicated normative principles in order to move from a reactive to an active approach.
Research Paper: The EU’s Application of the Cyber Diplomacy Toolbox
The first paper examining the application of the EU’s Cyber Diplomacy Toolbox (CDT) by EU institutions over the past six years.
Major Cyber Incident
Through exploiting SolarWinds software as a point of entry in 2019, APT29 was able to steal data and identities from several EU institutions, nine US government agencies, and around 100 private sector companies from around the world. Linda Liang and Mika Kerttunen reveal how this unprecedented, highly complex cyber espionage campaign was carried out.
EuRepoC Articles
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Advanced Persistent Threat Profiles
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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.