The North Korean Crypto Threat
Excerpt North Korea (the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea “DPRK”) presents a fundamental and growing international security challenge – and now represents the most serious nation-state risk...
Excerpt North Korea (the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea “DPRK”) presents a fundamental and growing international security challenge – and now represents the most serious nation-state risk...
Excerpt It is widely assumed that there is no accepted international definition of terrorism, in part because global views on what constitutes terrorism are so politically polarized as to prevent arriving...
Former counterterrorism czar says the U.S. needs to reconceptualize what power means in the 21st century
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Brazilian authorities extradited Hezbollah financier Assad Ahmad Barakat to Paraguay on Friday, dealing a key blow to the terrorist group. Barakat, now awaiting trial, belongs to a powerful Lebanese Shiite...
Excerpt Moving the U.S. Secret Service from the Department of Homeland Security back to the Department of the Treasury is critically important in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)...
The economic shock of the last few weeks has shaken the United States economy, erased the last two and a half years of stock market gains, and has left 22 million Americans unemployed. Yet as the economic...
(Washington, DC, September 3, 2019) – The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) today announced 21 experts who will serve as members of the Board of Advisors for its Center on Cyber and Technology...
(Washington, DC, July 11, 2019) – A new Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) report issued today examines how four U.S. adversaries – Russia,...
FDD Scholars Provide Nonpartisan Analysis of 21 Key Areas of Global and Regional Instability
(Washington, D.C., January 9, 2019) – The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) today unveiled its...
For someone supposed to be laundering millions of dollars in stolen funds, with investigators from three countries scrambling to track the money, Ding Zhize was a surprisingly unhurried man. He&r...
Russia is suspected to be behind recent hacker intrusions at American power plants, including at least one nuclear facility, two U.S. officials told NBC News. Investigators cannot defini...
(Washington, D.C., Feb. 6, 2017) – North Korea’s growing use of offensive cyber capabilities to t...
(Washington, D.C., Feb. 6, 2017) – Daniel L. Glaser, a 20-year U.S. Treasury Department veteran who mos...
(Washington, D.C., Dec. 16 2016) – Recognizing the significant gap in U.S. strategic thinking about how adversaries may use cyberattacks to disrupt the U.S. economy and threaten its nationa...
Fifteen years ago today, President George W. Bush signed Executive Order 13224, the opening salvo in America&...
Washington, DC -- John Cassara, a 26-year federal intelligence and law enforcement veteran and expert o...
Washington, DC -- Eric B. Lorber, an expert on anti-money laundering policy and terror finance issues, has been named senior advisor at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Center on...
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