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France news
fromwww.independent.co.uk
6 days ago

Russian nationals among 4 people arrested in France over espionage probe

French authorities detained members of a pro‑Russia group, accusing them of intelligence‑gathering for a foreign power, including the group's dual French‑Russian founder.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 week ago

Houthi court sentences 17 to death accused of spying for Israel, West

Houthi judges working with prosecutors in Yemen have sentenced 17 people to death by firing squad over alleged espionage on behalf of Israel and its western allies. The Specialized Criminal Court in the capital Sanaa handed down the sentences on Saturday morning in the cases of espionage cells within a spy network affiliated with American, Israeli, and Saudi intelligence, Houthi-run media said.
World news
US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 week ago

He Is Out of Control': MAGA Demands Answers After Trump Ambassador Mike Huckabee Covertly Meets With Spy Who Sold American Secrets

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee secretly met with convicted spy Jonathan Pollard, prompting bipartisan condemnation and calls for explanation and investigation.
fromTruthout
1 week ago

Huckabee Welcomed Man Imprisoned for 30 Years for Spying for Israel Into Embassy

"I wholeheartedly embrace an 'Israel first' doctrine,"
US politics
fromTheregister
1 week ago

China recruiting spies in the UK with 'sites like LinkedIn'

issued an espionage alert to Members of this House, Members of the other place and parliamentary staff to warn them about ongoing targeting of our democratic institutions by Chinese actors.
UK politics
History
fromwww.fireislandnews.com
2 weeks ago

Great South Bay News Columnist, Christopher Verga, Releases His Latest Long Island Historical Book, Nazis of Long Island: Sedition, Espionage & the Plot Against America

Nazi saboteurs landed on Long Island in 1947 to sabotage the U.S. energy grid; the plot involved American collaborators and Bund youth camps.
Information security
fromThe Hacker News
2 weeks ago

Iranian Hackers Launch 'SpearSpecter' Spy Operation on Defense & Government Targets

Iranian state-sponsored APT42 conducts the SpearSpecter espionage campaign targeting senior defense and government officials and their family members using personalized social engineering.
Information security
fromTechCrunch
3 weeks ago

'Landfall' spyware abused zero-day to hack Samsung Galaxy phones | TechCrunch

Landfall, an Android spyware, exploited a Samsung Galaxy zero-day to conduct precision espionage attacks on specific individuals, likely in the Middle East.
Information security
fromThe Hacker News
1 month ago

Chrome Zero-Day Exploited to Deliver Italian Memento Labs' LeetAgent Spyware

A Chrome zero-day (CVE-2025-2783) exploited via phishing delivered espionage tools from Italian firm Memento Labs to targeted organizations.
Germany news
fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago

Germany news: Hamburgers are happiest Germans, study says DW 10/27/2025

Life satisfaction in eastern Germany is rising faster than in the west, narrowing the happiness gap, while Hamburg remains Germany's happiest city.
World news
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

Cuba charges former economy minister Gil of espionage, financial crimes

Former Cuban economy minister Alejandro Gil and others face charges including espionage and multiple financial crimes after a nearly two-year investigation; potential beneficiaries were not disclosed.
Information security
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Australian man living in Washington DC pleads guilty to selling trade secrets to Russian broker

Australian contractor stole US national-security software trade secrets and sold them to a Russian cyber-tools broker; he pleaded guilty to theft charges.
Information security
fromFuturism
1 month ago

If You're a Tech Worker With an Attractive Girlfriend, We Have Extremely Bad News

Foreign intelligence services allegedly use romantic relationships to extract secrets from Western tech professionals, reviving Cold War-era "honey trap" tactics.
Information security
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

U.S. government accuses former L3Harris cyber boss of stealing trade secrets | TechCrunch

A former L3Harris Trenchant general manager is accused of stealing and selling eight trade secrets to a Russian buyer for $1.3 million.
Miscellaneous
fromwww.bbc.com
1 month ago

Three held on suspicion of helping Russian intelligence

Three men in London were arrested on suspicion of assisting Russia's foreign intelligence service under the National Security Act 2023.
fromTheregister
1 month ago

Suspected Salt Typhoon spies lurking in European telco

Salt Typhoon is an espionage gang linked to the People's Republic of China that hacked America's major telecommunications firms and stole metadata and other information belonging to " nearly every American," according to a top FBI cyber official who spoke with The Register about the intrusions. The crew's actions against US telcos came to light last year; however, it has been active since at least 2019.
Information security
#john-le-carre
#cai-qi
#china
fromwww.standard.co.uk
1 month ago
UK politics

Security committee urges minister to block Chinese 'mega embassy' plans amid security fears

Approving China's proposed large London embassy would undermine UK national security and economic resilience and risk espionage and sabotage.
fromTheregister
3 months ago
World news

FBI cyber cop: Salt Typhoon pwned 'nearly every American'

A China-linked espionage campaign compromised telecom networks and likely stole data from millions of Americans while impacting at least 80 countries since 2019.
fromVulture
1 month ago

Slow Horses Recap: He Really Is Dead, Isn't He?

The agents at Slough House are renowned for the incompetence that landed them there, but there have been, of course, plenty of times when their instincts are sound, their actions are noble, and they're wildly underestimated, just like their flatulent boss. They're perhaps better understood as being on the spectrum of competence, because you can never guess whether last week's grievous error will lead to this week's unlikely triumph, and vice versa. Do recall that last week's successful maneuver to liberate themselves from lockdown was
Television
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History
fromAdvocate.com
1 month ago

Playing for both teams: 6 LGBTQ+ spies from history

Several historical spies were LGBTQ+, exemplified by Guy Burgess who infiltrated British intelligence and relayed information to the Soviet Union before defecting in 1951.
UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Yvette Cooper defends children as young as 13 needing digital ID UK politics live

The UK must cooperate with China on trade and climate while treating transnational repression, cyber threats, and industrial espionage as serious national security risks.
Miscellaneous
fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago

Ukraine: Children ordered to evacuate from city in Donetsk DW 10/09/2025

Ukraine ordered evacuation of children and guardians around frontline Kramatorsk because of increased Russian drone attacks.
fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago

Hungary found to have sent agents to spy on EU report DW 10/09/2025

It is based on a range of sources, including insiders from the Hungarian intelligence service and permanent representation, as well as EU officials who had dealt with the spies themselves. Later on Thursday, Reuters news agency reported that a European Commission spokesperson announced that the Commission had voted to open an investigation into allegations that Hungary was spying on European institutions.
Miscellaneous
#russia
Books
fromHarvard Gazette
2 months ago

Live fast, die young, inspire Shakespeare - Harvard Gazette

Christopher Marlowe significantly shaped Elizabethan theater with tragic grandeur, a meteoric rise, and a squalid, murky death entangled with espionage and religiously driven violence.
fromSecurityWeek
2 months ago

Chinese APT 'Phantom Taurus' Targeting Organizations With Net-Star Malware

A Chinese state-sponsored hacking group tracked as 'Phantom Taurus' has been targeting government and telecommunications organizations for espionage for more than two years, Palo Alto Networks reports. Initially observed in 2023, the APT was only recently linked to Chinese hacking groups through shared infrastructure, as its tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) differ from those typically associated with threat actors operating out of China. "These enable the group to conduct highly covert operations and maintain long-term access to critical targets," says Palo Alto Networks.
Information security
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Britain may already be at war with Russia, former head of MI5 says

Lady Manningham-Buller argued that the situation had changed since the invasion of Ukraine and the various things I read about that the Russians have been doing here sabotage, intelligence collection, attacking people and so on. Speaking on a podcast in which she was interviewed by the lord speaker, John McFall, she then referenced Hill, who advised Donald Trump during his first term as US president and co-authored the UK's strategic defence review. I think she may be right in saying we're already at war with Russia. It's a different sort of war, but the hostility, the cyber-attacks, the physical attacks, the intelligence work is extensive, she said.
Miscellaneous
UK politics
fromwww.bbc.com
2 months ago

Commons open to espionage after China spying charges dropped, says Speaker

Dropping charges in a China espionage case raises concerns that Parliament remains vulnerable to foreign spying and demands stronger protective measures.
UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Parliament vulnerable to foreign actors' after China spying charges dropped, Commons speaker says

Dropping charges against two suspected China spies left the UK Parliament vulnerable to foreign interference, prompting calls to strengthen security and pursue further protective measures.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

Britain arrests trio of suspected Russian saboteurs

British police arrest three over alleged Russia-linked spying, as Lithuania and Latvia uncover sabotage plots. British police have arrested three people suspected of running sabotage and espionage operations for Russia. The detentions on Thursday east of London mark the latest in a string of espionage allegations that Moscow has been recruiting people to engage in attacks and spying across Europe.
Miscellaneous
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 months ago

US panel probes Huawei affiliate's presence on Nvidia's Silicon Valley campus

A letter penned by Republican Chairman John Moolenaar and Democratic Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi of the House Select Committee on China shows a decadelong history of a shared address for Futurewei Technologies Inc. at Nvidia's headquarters in Santa Clara, California. The lawmakers say that Futurewei held the prime lease on three buildings at the site before Nvidia acquired full control in 2024. The letter also cites a May filing that shows Futurewei is a subsidiary of Huawei.
US politics
fromTheregister
2 months ago

NASA bars Chinese citizens from its facilities, networks

You don't need to be a rocket scientist to understand why NASA implemented this policy: In July, dual Chinese/American citizen Chenguang Gong admitted to a lengthy industrial espionage campaign that saw him download information on sensors used by aircraft to confuse infrared-seeking missiles, plus data on radiation-hardened cameras that the US placed in orbit to give an early warning of incoming rockets and hypersonic vehicles. China has also recruited spies at the US Navy.
Science
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

European operation identifies alleged Belarusian spy ring

A statement from Eurojust, the European Union's criminal justice coordination body, said it had worked with Romanian, Czech and Hungarian authorities to capture an individual investigated for the crime of treason by way of transmitting state secrets. The Czech Republic expelled a Belarusian diplomat over the affair, as did Moldova. Eurojust did not identify the main suspect but the Hungarian news outlet Telex named him as Alexandru Balan, a former deputy head of the Moldovan intelligence service and for a time its liaison in Kyiv.
Europe politics
fromRoger Ebert
2 months ago

Hulu K-Drama "Tempest" Grapples with the Inevitability of War and the Dream of Peace | TV/Streaming | Roger Ebert

Following the success of " Squid Game," the storytelling flair found in Korean dramas has reached new heights in popularity. As with every style of television from every country, there have been pops and fizzles; still, there's something about the imaginative plots and constant cliffhangers that pulls American viewers back to our screens for more K-drama. In the new Hulu espionage thriller "Tempest," a prophetic dream precedes hard times, when an assassination attempt is merely the spark that ignites international conspiracies,
Television
Information security
fromThe Hacker News
2 months ago

CHILLYHELL macOS Backdoor and ZynorRAT RAT Threaten macOS, Windows, and Linux Systems

New CHILLYHELL macOS backdoor and Go-based ZynorRAT RAT target macOS, Windows, and Linux, use persistence, C2 servers, and timestomping for stealth.
fromwww.cbc.ca
2 months ago

Igor Gouzenko defected 80 years ago. His Cold War-era bravery is still being remembered | CBC News

Left without a headstone amid lingering fears of retribution from Moscow, the gravesite of Igor Gouzenko and his wife Svetlana has been identified since 2002 by a large Muskoka rock bearing a plaque with their names and the phrase "We chose freedom for mankind." A small gathering at the grave this weekend marked 80 years since Gouzenko defected from the Soviet Union, smuggling 109 secret documents in his shirt out of the Ottawa embassy and delivering them to the offices of the Ottawa Journal newspaper.
Canada news
World news
fromDefector
3 months ago

Danish Intelligence Service Tells Trump To Stop Oafish Espionage Maneuvers | Defector

U.S. figures, including Trump, have long sought to acquire Greenland, and recent espionage activity prompted Danish diplomatic protest.
World news
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months ago

Iran has a long history of clandestine attacks abroad to further its ends

Iran conducts clandestine violence and espionage abroad to gain strategic advantage by striking soft targets, compensating for conventional military weaknesses.
fromsfist.com
3 months ago

Thursday Morning What's Up: Waymos to Hit Market Street Next Week

Starting Tuesday, Waymo vehicles and Uber and Lyft black cars will be permitted back on the mostly car-free section of Market Street below 10th Street. For Uber and Lyft, this will be a pilot program during off-peak hours only, after an April decision by Mayor Daniel Lurie to walk back the fully car-free policy. [Chronicle] A San Jose bus driver was attacked by a knife-wielding man following a confrontation on the bus, after the suspect was repeatedly pulling the stop-request cord.
San Francisco
Books
fromwww.npr.org
3 months ago

Two genre novels offer entertainment and plenty of wry social commentary

Genre fiction can deliver sly, wry, intelligent social commentary while entertaining, and contemporary espionage novels demonstrate that capability.
World news
fromwww.dw.com
3 months ago

New Zealand spy agency calls China 'most active' threat DW 08/21/2025

New Zealand's intelligence agency warns China is the most active foreign interference actor, prompting NZ to boost defense spending amid rising espionage and extremism threats.
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