Beyond the Battlefield: Threats to the Defense Industrial Base

**Executive summary:** Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) reports that the defense industrial base faces sustained targeting by state-sponsored actors and criminal groups, emphasizing Russian and China-nexus espionage, hacktivism, and supply-chain exposure; observed themes include targeting of UAS-related technologies, exploitation of hiring/recruitment processes and employees, compromise of messaging applications and edge devices, and use of specific malware and lures by groups such as APT44 (Sandworm) and TEMP.Vermin.