Cyber

FDD Analysis

October 14, 2026 | Jiwon Ma, Zoe Rice

AI-Assisted Bank Hacks Expose a Blind Spot in South Korea’s Cyber Defenses

AI-assisted hackers are exposing a dangerous gap in South Korea’s financial sector defenses. Banks walled off their core systems, yet attackers still stole their customers’ most sensitive data. As...

October 14, 2026 | Leah Siskind, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

The AI competition is a two-front war

We must win both

October 13, 2026 | Emmerson Overell

Mental Health Support for Cyber Operators Is Critical to U.S. National Security

Many Americans can picture the movie Top Gun’s dogfights, but cyber battlefields and their stresses are harder to envision. The majority of personnel work long shifts in front of computer monitors in...

October 9, 2026 | Annie Fixler, Zoe Rice, Craig Singleton, Jack Burnham, Sophie McDowall, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

Securing the United States Bulk-Power System

October 8, 2026 | Georgianna Shea, Shaun C. Six

A Practical Path to Post-Quantum Readiness in Operational Technology

How to develop an OT cybersecurity roadmap to transition to PQC algorithms designed to resist quantum-computer-enabled decryption.

October 6, 2026 | Ryan Wohl

Treasury Sanctioned a Hamas Crowdfunding Network. Its French Front Should Be Next.

U.S. and French authorities have moved against a Hamas fundraising network that allegedly raised more than $600,000 from American donors. The harder task is keeping it from rebuilding. On October 2,...

October 6, 2026 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Craig Singleton, Joe Dougherty

Findings of Taiwan-China War Game

October 5, 2026 | Sophie McDowall, Elisa Montgomery

Federal Grant Program’s Third Lapse Endangers State Cybersecurity

U.S. states are once again being left with limited access to cybersecurity resources as funding for the federal government’s State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program (SLCGP) lapsed on September 30....

October 2, 2026 | Max Lesser, Jacob Breach, Pavneet Kaur

Defense Department’s Public Election Security Directive Sends Important, but Belated, Signal to U.S. Adversaries

With the U.S. midterm elections fast approaching, the Department of Defense (DOD) has released an apparently unprecedented directive on election security. The directive, signed by the secretary of defense...

October 2, 2026 | Johanna Yang

Russian Cyberespionage Campaign Signals U.S. Should Fast-Track Lessons Learned From Ukraine

Russia is testing its cyber weapons in Ukraine before turning them against the United States and its allies. Microsoft has disclosed that the Russian intelligence-linked hacking group Star Blizzard...

October 1, 2026 | Max Lesser, Maria Riofrio

FDD Exposes Network of Fake Watchdog and News Websites Advancing Qatari Interests

October 1, 2026 | Tzvi Kahn

Trump Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: October

Trend Overview – ...

September 29, 2026 | Johanna Yang

America runs on GPS. It needs a backup plan

Most Americans think GPS merely provides directions: open the map, follow the blue dot and get where you need to go. But that’s just the consumer application. The national security applications of GPS...

September 28, 2026 | Jiwon Ma

Strengthening NATO Through Military Mobility and Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity

September 26, 2026 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Emmerson Overell

Elon Musk built the rockets. Washington forgot to build the roads

American rockets are launching more frequently than ever, yet getting a ride to orbit is becoming harder. SpaceX broke the record for the shortest interval between two orbital launches in August, sending...

September 25, 2026 | Jacob Nagel

Ensuring Israel’s AI leadership: Are we prepared for the next revolution?

For Israel, the establishment of controlling AI infrastructure is a strategic, and perhaps even existential, issue affecting both economic strength and technological superiority.

September 24, 2026 | Emmerson Overell

America’s Military Power Is Already in Orbit

Space is already central to modern warfare.

September 24, 2026 | Mark Dubowitz, Miad Maleki

Blockade bites hard at Iran’s borders — Trump can’t cave now

To understand the economic devastation Iran is now experiencing, look no further than the trucks choking its borders. Thousands of them have lined up at land crossings into neighboring Turkey and Afghanistan,...

September 23, 2026 | Sophie McDowall, Elisa Montgomery

Maritime Cyber Incidents Test Coast Guard Cyber Preparedness

The Coast Guard and the FBI are investigating multiple suspected cyberattacks on oil tankers that have disrupted trade routes throughout the Atlantic Ocean. On August 7, an oil tanker bound for the United...

September 22, 2026 | Josh Birenbaum, Amit Sharma

How Boosting Your Privacy Will Make America More Secure

New digital identity tools could give individuals greater control over personal data while helping combat fraud, illicit finance, and AI-enabled threats.