UN Peace Operations Under Fire From State-Sponsored Hackers

A research brief warns that UN peacekeeping missions, particularly in Central Africa, face growing risk of compromise by nation-state-sponsored and affiliated actors (including the Wagner Group), putting sensitive data such as identities and locations of activists at risk and potentially causing deadly consequences; the author recommends the UN improve threat-hunting, secure software supply chains, and establish robust data chains of custody given limited internal trust and uniquely challenging operational environments.