Espionage
Alternative labels
Clandestine operations
Report
Annual cyber threat report 2023-2024
Cybercrime is a persistent and disruptive threat, and the impact on small businesses and individuals are increasing. This report details how malicious state and non-state cyber actors are targeting Australian governments, critical infrastructure, businesses and individuals for the purposes of espionage, disruption and financial gain. The report offers recommendations for individuals, organisations and critical infrastructure...
Report
Competing without fighting: China's strategy of political warfare
This report offers one of the most comprehensive analyses to date of Chinese political warfare activities and examines China’s main actions, primary goals, and options for the United States and its partners.
Briefing paper
State-sponsored economic cyberespionage and the risk to nations’ prosperity
In this briefing note, the authors conclude that the threat of state-sponsored economic cyber-espionage is more significant than ever, with countries industrialising their cyber-espionage efforts to target commercial firms and universities on a grand scale.
Report
Many hands in the cookie jar
This study, conducted from March to November 2021, examines prior examples of state-sponsored cyber espionage to see what forms of response the U.S. government considered, what actions it took, and whether those actions changed adversary behaviour or affected other actors’ behaviour.
Report
COVID-19 disinformation and social media manipulation: automating influence on COVID-19
This report investigates a campaign of cross-platform inauthentic activity that relies on a high-degree of automation and is broadly in alignment with the political goal of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to denigrate the standing of the United States.