In 2025, NATO member states moved decisively to expand their cyber posture beyond protection. One of the clearest signals came in December, when the United States and its allies staged the large-scale Cyber Coalition 2025 exercises in Estonia.

The US President Donald Trump has suggested that American cyber or advanced technical capabilities may have played a role in plunging parts of Caracas into darkness during the high-risk operation that led to the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

Expect significant innovations in AI-driven cyber tools and a closer convergence between cybersecurity and geopolitics, they said.

Without a new framework to counter China-backed cyber operations in the region, Beijing and other state-backed cyber groups will continue escalating their cyber operations to spy, steal, and sabotage with near impunity.

The U.S. Air Force’s 67th Cyberspace Wing has been busy. The wing operationally acts as the execution arm of Air Forces Cyber, performing comprehensive cyber operations on a service and nation level. The wing has successfully proven its ability to ...

Chad Raduege joined Elara Nova as a partner in November 2023 after serving in the U.S. Air Force for 29 years.

The U.S. appears to have used its cyber capabilities to capture Venezuela’s leader over the weekend — revealing how the U.S. could wield cyber power in future geopolitical showdowns.

The Cyber National Mission Force (CNMF) was upgraded to a subordinate unified command, marking an upgrade for the force and stressing the importance of defense, attack and intelligence cyber operations against hackers as well as adversarial nations.