Dmitri Alperovitch (Russian: Дмитрий Альперович; born 1980)[1] is an American think-tank founder, author, philanthropist, podcast host and former computer security industry executive.

[11] Subsequently, he led the investigation of Night Dragon espionage operation of the Western multinational oil and gas companies, and traced them to Song Zhiyue, a Chinese national living in Heze City, Shandong.

[12] In August 2011, he published Operation Shady RAT, a report on suspected Chinese intrusions into at least 72 organizations, including defense contractors, businesses worldwide, the United Nations and the International Olympic Committee.

By May 2017, CrowdStrike had received $256 million in funding from Warburg Pincus, Accel Partners, and Google Capital and its stock was valued at just under $1 billion.

[22] In December 2024, along with Cold War historian Sergey Radchenko, Alperovitch proposed that the incoming Trump administration try to pry North Korea away from the emerging Russia-China-Iran axis and attempt to negotiate a peace deal that does not demand full denuclearization but instead prioritizes nonproliferation, moratorium on nuclear tests, end to provocative missile launches and termination of cyber attacks against the West.

The review discovered that Storm-0558 broke into Microsoft's corporate network and stole a cryptographic key used for signing authentication tokens for accessing customer email accounts.

It then used that key to forge tokens to access Microsoft Exchange Online mailboxes of 22 organizations and over 500 individuals around the world, including the email accounts of then Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, United States Ambassador to China R. Nicholas Burns, and Congressman Don Bacon.

The institute will offer Master of Arts and doctor of philosophy degrees in cybersecurity studies and policy, and an Executive Education program for private sector and government leaders.

[35] Alperovitch is an author, along with Garrett Graff, of the book: World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century.

It offers a comprehensive strategy for the US to deter war and maintain its place as the world's leading superpower in the face of rising China.