KYIV — The Ukrainian soldier had been fighting the Russians on the battlefield when they came for his parents in occupied eastern Ukraine. They were taken from their home and tortured, according to Ukraine’s security service. Then, a Russian agent contacted the soldier with an ultimatum: Switch sides and spy for Russia, or his family … Read more
Most alarmingly, PlanetRisk began seeing evidence of the US military’s own missions in the Locomotive data. Phones would appear at American military installations such as Fort Bragg in North Carolina and MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida—home of some of the most skilled US special operators with the Joint Special Operations Command and other … Read more
Four men Iran believed to be linked to Israeli spy agency Mossad were executed on Monday, Iranian state media reported, amid escalating tensions between the longtime foes and concerns of a widening conflict in the Middle East as the Israel-Hamas war rages on. The state-controlled Islamic Republic News Agency described the four people—who were presumably … Read more
A new U.K. intelligence report points to a years-long “campaign of malicious cyber activity” against politicians, civil servants and journalists by Russian spies. Dan Kitwood | Getty Images LONDON — The U.K. on Thursday accused Russia of conducting a years-long “campaign of malicious cyber activity” against politicians, civil servants and journalists aimed at undermining British … Read more
Two men accused of spying for Israel were executed in the West Bank, with their bodies dragged through alleys before being hung from a pylon by a cheering mob. The two men were shot dead in the West Bank city of Tulkarm on Friday by members of Palestinian armed groups. A Palestinian journalist in the … Read more
CANBERRA, Australia — Australia’s cooperation with the United States and Britain to develop an Australian fleet of submarines powered by U.S. nuclear technology is a likely target of state-sponsored cyberespionage, the nation’s digital spy agency said on Wednesday. The Australian Signals Directorate reported a 23% increase in cybercrimes in the country and a 14% increase … Read more
A federal law authorizing a vast amount of the United States military’s foreign intelligence collection is set to expire in two months, pulling the plug on history’s most prolific eavesdropping operation and the primary means by which US spies intercept the private communications of people deemed threatening, or simply interesting, by the US government—the world’s … Read more
The Washington Post Exclusive October 23, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EDT Russian nationalist Alexander Dugin attends a funeral on Aug. 23, 2022, in Moscow for his daughter Daria Dugina, who was killed in a car explosion. (Evgenii Bugubaev/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave KYIV — The cluttered car carrying a … Read more
For a lot of the cybersecurity business, malware unfold through USB drives represents the quaint hacker risk of the previous decade—or the one earlier than that. However a bunch of China-backed spies seems to have discovered that world organizations with workers in creating nations nonetheless preserve one foot within the technological previous, the place thumb … Read more
Senior United States intelligence officers met privately in Virginia yesterday with over a dozen civil liberties teams to subject issues about home surveillance operations which have drawn intense scrutiny this summer time amongst an unlikely coalition of Democratic and Republican lawmakers within the US Congress. The closed-door session, convened on the Liberty Crossing Intelligence Campus—a … Read more