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Expert commentary on emerging tech and security. Send us your article ideas at [email protected]. Project from @VirtualRoutes

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In May’s Hooked!: 'Are the wormlets giving me trust issues?', Binding Hook Senior Editor @katharinegk explores a recently solved cyber cold case and suggests some further Binding Hook reading on state-backed #cyberops.

Read the full Hooked!: https://t.co/ksNl78GbUl

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Virtual Routes is launching VIRO Learning.

VIRO Learning is a new platform offering applied education on cybersecurity and emerging technologies, with a focus on how these issues shape real-world policy and decision-making.

More information: https://t.co/NXOUNdDdTN

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In his latest for Binding Hook, @VirtualRoutes European Cybersecurity Fellow @MattiaSguazzini looks at the impact the #DigitalOmnibus and the #CybersecurityPackage might have on EU cyber:

https://t.co/D7vJgEiatq

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🪝May’s Editor’s Pick at Binding Hook: @Lawsecnet's review of Fiona Cunningham’s Under the Nuclear Shadow, which asks if information-age weapons are a complement or substitute for nuclear deterrence.

Read the article: https://t.co/wPhDTSkYEo

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📬Binding Hook's May newsletter is landing soon.
This month we're diving into #nuclear deterrence, Europe's blind spot in concentrated compute, a new #Hooked! exploring a cyber cold case, selected analysis on disinformation, & some more!

Subscribe now: https://t.co/XdsoaNtot3

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Generative AI is reshaping enterprise security. LLMs can now expose sensitive data through summaries, inference and recombination, not just direct file access. How can companies adapt? Read more from @VirtualRoutes Bernhardt Fourie: https://t.co/d2QpOMOx8Q

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In Hooked!, @katharinegk explores SentinelLABS’s breakthrough research into the mysterious “fast16” malware, and the unsettling question it leaves behind: if malware could quietly alter calculations in 2005, what else might it have touched?

🪝Read more: https://t.co/ksNl78FE4N

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Treating compute concentration as a cybersecurity risk, rather than merely an industrial policy aspiration, would give Europe’s #digitalsovereignty agenda the operational substance it currently lacks.

https://t.co/W0TxX0JAvB

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‘Deterrence under Uncertainty’ is worth reading for its unusual combination of technical seriousness and conceptual restraint. It offers a disciplined way to think about emerging technologies in a domain where overconfidence is especially dangerous.

https://t.co/SSWuj3iWMi

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The concentration of computing infrastructure in the hands of a small number of non-European providers is a #cybersecurity risk.

@VirtualRoutes fellow Joel Christoph looks at the details: https://t.co/W0TxX0JAvB

#EuropeanSecurity #DigitalSovereignty #CloudComputing

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(5/6) The rise of deepfakes beyond social media
Yael Ram looks at how #deepfakes are expanding into broader political and security contexts.

🪝Read the article: https://t.co/QUXWHZf6F8

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Looking for something to read this weekend? Check out @Lawsecnet's review of @Fiona_Cunning's Under the Nuclear Shadow (from @PrincetonUPress) for a suggestion!

https://t.co/wPhDTSkYEo

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For more on why these types of moves are necessary, read @eubenincasa & @Shaunitor's recent piece on the need for safe harbour protections for vulnerability research in the EU:

https://t.co/ud4cJVCwxo

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The UK government is poised to revisit its main cybercrime law after years of warnings that it is outdated and hinders security research https://t.co/E4XKqvLfyM

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Looking for something to read this weekend? Check out @Lawsecnet's review of @Fiona_Cunning's Under the Nuclear Shadow (from @PrincetonUPress) for a suggestion!

https://t.co/wPhDTSkYEo

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In May’s Hooked!: 'Are the wormlets giving me trust issues?', Binding Hook Senior Editor @katharinegk explores a recently solved cyber cold case and suggests some further Binding Hook reading on state-backed #cyberops.

Read the full Hooked!: https://t.co/ksNl78GbUl

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‘Cybersecurity strategy must extend beyond endpoint protection and incident response to encompass the structural economics of the infrastructure layer itself,’ argues @VirtualRoutes fellow Joel Christoph:
https://t.co/W0TxX0JAvB

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(1/6) Disinformation & cyber influence: selected analysis from Binding Hook

With elections already in Hungary, Slovenia, and the UK (and more to come in the US), 2026 is a big year for #democracy and #disinformation.

A thread of reading recommendations🧵

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(6/6) Europe needs to invest in cognitive defence
Monica Kello makes the case for strengthening resilience against information manipulation.

🪝Read the article: https://t.co/SdVuJcFXPF

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(1/6) Disinformation & cyber influence: selected analysis from Binding Hook

With elections already in Hungary, Slovenia, and the UK (and more to come in the US), 2026 is a big year for #democracy and #disinformation.

A thread of reading recommendations🧵

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(5/6) The rise of deepfakes beyond social media
Yael Ram looks at how #deepfakes are expanding into broader political and security contexts.

🪝Read the article: https://t.co/QUXWHZf6F8