Under the leadership of Professor Vera Schmitt at Mainz University, the XplaiNLP Research Group at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) is coordinating the new EU research project FIMI-RESIST. Over the next 30 months, ten partners from research and technology, media and civil society across nine countries will examine which existing European tools designed to counter foreign information manipulation and interference perform effectively under real-world conditions.

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Russian hostile activity costs the UK at least £2 billion annually, according to a recent report by Scottish MP Graeme Downie, who has called on the government to measure what these actions cost Britain. But this figure is just the baseline. In reality, a profound shift in Moscow’s approach to sabotage means the true cost is set to climb higher.

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East Germany’s espionage activities in the West boosted the country’s economic output by 7.4 percent. Value added in manufacturing alone increased by 22.3 percent through industrial espionage, equivalent to 20.2 billion East German marks or approximately 4.1 billion euros at 2020 prices. These figures are based on data from 1988, one year before the fall of the Berlin Wall. This is the result of a new Research Insight from the ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin).

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On Sept. 23, the FBI disclosed it is investigating a claim from the hacking group ShinyHunters that it stole thousands of FBI employees’ personal information.

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Nexus claimed that it had gained unauthorized access to a major identity verification company and had spent more than a year “continuously” exfiltrating new data into a private database. Krebs on Security noted that in a single day the number of licenses in the database increased by nearly 400,000, suggesting regular ingestion of new data.

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On 22 September, The New York Times reported, citing seventeen German and foreign officials, that Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s government is preparing to restrict the access of Saxony-Anhalt’s next government to classified material, should the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) take power there. The AfD won 43.8 percent of the vote there on 6 September, three seats short of a majority, and is looking for the votes to put its candidate in office.

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The argument in Washington over the past few months has been about whether to ban Chinese AI models or restrict them. What has been less examined is what Beijing intends to do with the open-weight – that is, publicly available and downloadable – models its labs have built. Beijing has started to answer that question, and not with one voice.

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Casual observers of Venezuelan politics might have assumed that the US capture and removal of former Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro in January would guarantee the dismantling of his authoritarian regime and a rupture with Beijing.

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OAuth Exploitation Russian threat actors are shifting away from plain old password theft and moving toward legitimate platform features like OAuth permissions. Groups like UNC6293 and UNC7005 take their time...

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Overview of the Advisory On July 23, 2026, CISA, the NSA, the FBI, and their international partners issued a joint cybersecurity advisory alerting organizations to ongoing Russian state-sponsored activity. The...

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How HollowGraph Operates  On July 20, 2026, Group-IB security researchers released a study describing an implant known as HollowGraph that converts a hacked Microsoft 365 calendar into hidden communication channel....

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