CLAWS Cyber Index I Volume II I Issue 01
This issue of the CLAWS Cyber Index (Volume II, Issue 01) covers the first half of January 2026, a period marked by the rapid professionalization of state-sponsored cyber tools and the increasing convergence of commercial AI with military operations. Key themes include the intensification of regional espionage in South Asia with Transparent Tribe’s new RAT attacks against India , and the Pentagon’s landmark integration of Elon Musk’s “Grok” AI into defense networks. The issue also explores the “Doomsday” data breach of the BreachForums underground marketplace and technical deep-dives into emerging threats like the VoidLink cloud-native framework and the “Holy Grail” of VMware ESXi hypervisor escapes.
