Senior research associate Emile Dirks spoke with Domino Theory about Xi Jinping’s view on national security. The post From Stuxnet to Operation Epic Fury: The China-Iran Intelligence Nexus appeared first on The Citizen Lab.

Senior research associate Emile Dirks spoke with Domino Theory about a new law in China that threatens cross-border legal consequences. The post Beijing Codifies Repression of Overseas Activists appeared first on The Citizen Lab.

Citizen Lab senior research associate Emile Dirks spoke with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists about a report he co-authored on transnational repression in the EU.  The authors found that European nations respond more weakly to transnational repression from...

We investigate a coordinated network of inauthentic X accounts that is spreading AI-generated content to induce revolt in Iran. The network has been active since 2023, but increased activity during the Iran-Israel conflict in June 2025.

On June 9, join the Citizen Lab’s Emile Dirks to discuss China’s influence, interference, and repression in Canada.

Our investigation of a spearphishing campaign that targeted senior members of the World Uyghur Congress in March 2025 reveals a highly-customized attack delivery method. The ruse used by attackers replicates a pattern in which threat actors weaponize software and...

A sustained, coordinated social media harassment and doxxing campaign – which we codenamed JUICYJAM – targeting the pro-democracy movement in Thailand has run uninterrupted, and unchallenged, since at least August 2020. Through our analysis of public social media posts...

In a piece for the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, Emile Dirks and Diana Fu argue that the U.S.’s pull back from its liberal-minded engagements in China “poses an imminent challenge to Canada: how to curb Beijing’s foreign interference...