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fromThe Atlantic
8 hours ago

The Asymmetric Ways Iran Could Strike Back

A mysterious Farsi-language numbers station broadcast during conflict with Iran, suggesting ongoing covert intelligence operations using Cold War-era espionage techniques despite modern digital alternatives.
#national-security
fromComputerWeekly.com
3 months ago
UK politics

UK prosecution of alleged Chinese spies was 'shambolic' says Parliamentary committee | Computer Weekly

Prosecution of two alleged Chinese spies collapsed due to confusion, systemic failures, and insufficient evidence of China posing a national security threat at the time.
fromwww.independent.co.uk
4 months ago
US politics

James Bond fantasist jailed for 7 years in UK for trying to spy for Russia

A 65-year-old man was jailed seven years for trying to pass former defence secretary Grant Shapps' information to men he believed were Russian agents.
UK politics
fromwww.bbc.com
4 days ago

MP's husband and two men bailed after arrests over alleged China spying

Three men, including the husband of Labour MP Joani Reid, were arrested on suspicion of spying for China and released on bail pending investigation.
UK politics
fromwww.npr.org
1 week ago

Former UK ambassador to the US arrested on suspicion of misconduct over Epstein ties

Peter Mandelson, former British ambassador to the U.S., was arrested and accused of passing confidential government information to Jeffrey Epstein, facing potential espionage charges.
US politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 week ago

Former US F-35 fighter pilot arrested for training Chinese air force

Former Air Force Major Gerald Brown was arrested for illegally training Chinese military pilots, betraying decades of US military service and classified defense expertise.
#cybersecurity
fromTechCrunch
1 week ago
Information security

Inside the story of the US defense contractor who leaked hacking tools to Russia | TechCrunch

fromTechCrunch
1 week ago
Information security

Inside the story of the US defense contractor who leaked hacking tools to Russia | TechCrunch

fromTheregister
1 week ago

L3Harris exec jailed 7 years for selling exploits to Russia

Peter Williams stole a US defense contractor's trade secrets about highly sensitive cyber capabilities and sold them to a broker whose clients include the Russian government, putting our national security and countless potential victims at risk. The FBI and our partners remain unwavering in our commitment to protecting America's critical technologies, and we will ensure any who attempt to profit at our nation's expense face the full weight of the criminal justice system.
Information security
Silicon Valley
fromSFGATE
1 week ago

3 Bay Area engineers face prison after allegedly leaking Google trade secrets

Three Silicon Valley engineers were arrested and indicted for allegedly stealing trade secrets from Google and other tech companies and transmitting them to Iran.
Film
fromThe New Yorker
2 weeks ago

Say It Again: A Treatment

Clara, a spy whose family and friends were repeatedly targeted by Russian gangs, travels to London and infiltrates M.I.6 to find a Russian double agent.
US politics
fromNew York Post
2 weeks ago

Love-struck suspected Moscow mole in NYC tells FBI agent, 'Catch me, baby' - only to land behind bars

Nomma Zarubina, accused of working for the Kremlin, pleaded guilty to lying to federal agents after incriminating, flirtatious texts to an FBI agent.
History
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 weeks ago

Today in History: February 18, Veteran FBI agent accused of spying for Russia

Feb. 18 marks many notable events including Robert Hanssen's arrest, publication of Huckleberry Finn, Pluto's discovery, major crimes, and Perseverance's Mars landing.
#russian-intelligence
fromVulture
3 weeks ago

Industry Recap: Kompromat

About halfway through "Dear Henry," Whitney Halberstram hits his lowest ebb. Thanks to Harper's explosive remarks at the ALPHA Conference, Tender's stock price is cratering. Hayley - who turns out to be a hooker who does secretarial admin on the side and not an executive assistant who occasionally threesomes - is extorting him for $750,000. Henry is AWOL. Not even Jonah will break from putting notes in strippers' G-strings to take his call for old time's sake.
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US politics
fromSFGATE
3 weeks ago

Former California political adviser admits to being secret agent for China

Southern California political adviser Yaoning "Mike" Sun acted as a covert agent for the People's Republic of China and was sentenced to four years in federal prison.
fromwww.dw.com
3 weeks ago

Australia: Two charged with spying for China

Two Chinese nationals have fallen foul of Australian laws on foreign interference introduced in 2018, with police alleging they spied on a Buddhist group under orders from law enforcement authorities in China. The pair a 25-year-old man and a 31-year-old woman were to appear in court on Wednesday, each on the charge of "reckless foreign interference," and could face a maximum penalty of 15 years in jail if convicted.
World news
#china
#salt-typhoon
Miscellaneous
fromLondon Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
1 month ago

Assassination attempt on Zelensky foiled as 'sleeper agent' found guilty of spying for Russia - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com

A Polish man was convicted of spying for Russia and aiding an assassination plot against President Zelensky and sentenced to three years, six months in prison.
France news
fromThe Local France
1 month ago

Four arrested in south-western France on suspicion of spying for China

Four people, including two Chinese nationals, were arrested in France for allegedly intercepting satellite-linked military data and transmitting it to China.
History
fromSmithsonian Magazine
1 month ago

What Are the Best TV Shows About the American Revolution? A Historian Outlines Five of His Favorites

Television, not feature films, has provided the most compelling and frequent portrayals of the American Revolution, notably series like Turn, John Adams and Franklin.
Fashion & style
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

Inside Russia's Secret Campaign of Sabotage in Europe

Russian military intelligence recruits young people online, using Telegram and deceptive parcel operations to coerce them into espionage, arson, and attacks across Europe.
#russia
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

Israel blocks Spain's judicial investigation into Pegasus spyware scandal

Judge Jose Luis Calama, of the Audiencia Nacional high court, stated that Israel has blocked the investigation into a spying case against several members of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's government using a spyware called Pegasus, marketed and developed by an Israeli company. The probe found preliminary evidence of crimes involving the disclosure of secrets, which jeopardized the security of the Spanish State.
Miscellaneous
Germany news
fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago

Germany expels Russian diplomat over spying case

Germany expelled a person accused of spying for Russia and summoned Moscow's ambassador, declaring zero tolerance for espionage under diplomatic cover.
fromwww.independent.co.uk
1 month ago

Germany arrests woman accused of supplying war-related information to Russian agent

Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story. The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum. And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting and analysis with paywalls. We believe quality journalism should be available to everyone, paid for by those who can afford it.
Germany news
#cold-war
Information security
fromTheregister
1 month ago

Mandiant releases credential cracker, to kill bad protocol

Mandiant released rainbow tables that enable Net-NTLMv1 credentials to be cracked within 12 hours on consumer hardware, urging organizations to disable the legacy protocol.
World news
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Why a Chinese mega embassy' is not such a worry for British spies

Consolidating China's multiple London diplomatic sites into one embassy will simplify MI5 monitoring and may limit the effectiveness of traditional embassy-based espionage.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

The best recent crime and thrillers review roundup

Obnoxious jewellery dealer Rodney Manderson has been killed outside the Bowery auction rooms, stabbed through the eye with the Victorian hatpin that his boss, Rose Bowery, has brandished in front of the nation on Bargain Hunt. As she discussed the pin's virtues as a deadly weapon as well as its millinerial uses, the fiercely loyal Rilke decides while feeling grateful to have skipped lunch and trying not to think of jelly to remove it before calling the police.
LGBT
#aldrich-ames
UK politics
fromwww.standard.co.uk
1 month ago

Met Police apologise for not investigating Chinese officials 'spying on protesters' outside planned London mega-embassy

Police initially told a victim to report alleged Chinese state-linked intimidation to Hong Kong’s embassy, later apologising for failing to investigate national security concerns.
#us-navy
fromAxios
1 month ago
US politics

U.S. Navy sailor sentenced to nearly 17 years in prison for spying for China

fromAxios
1 month ago
US politics

U.S. Navy sailor sentenced to nearly 17 years in prison for spying for China

#sabotage
Television
fromInverse
1 month ago

10 Years Later, Amazon Just Released A New Season Of Its Most Underrated Spy Thriller

The Night Manager returns in 2026 with Jonathan Pine undercover in Colombia confronting a revived arms empire led by Teddy Dos Santos.
World news
fromTheregister
1 month ago

France swaps alleged ransomware crook for conflict researche

France exchanged an alleged US-wanted ransomware suspect for pardoned French researcher Laurent Vinatier, who was released from a Russian prison.
fromLondon Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
2 months ago

Russian spies caught operating in a NATO country - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com

We see a bigger threat up here and it is mainly espionage and gathering information. "When you live here, you become a little more vigilant. "And you quickly see if there are people with a different dialect who are walking around taking pictures, who are in places they should not be, or who are in places that are important to us. We notice that.
Miscellaneous
History
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Aldrich Ames, CIA agent who spied for Soviet Union and Russia, dies aged 84

Aldrich Ames, a CIA agent, spied for the Soviet Union and Russia for nearly a decade, causing one of the most damaging US intelligence breaches.
Privacy technologies
fromDataBreaches.Net
2 months ago

Ukrainian Teen Sentenced for Sharing Military Data with Russian Spy - DataBreaches.Net

A 16-year-old in Khmelnytskyi was convicted for passing military facility data to a Russian intelligence officer and received two years probation.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

Iran executes man accused of spying for Israel's Mossad: State media

Iran has executed a man convicted of spying for Israel's Mossad intelligence agency, judicial authorities announced, as Tehran continues a widening crackdown on alleged collaborators following the 12-day Israel-United States-Iran war earlier this year. Aghil Keshavarz was put to death on Saturday morning after the Supreme Court upheld his conviction on espionage charges, according to Mizan, the judiciary's official news agency.
World news
World news
fromRadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
2 months ago

Sweden Confirms Citizen Detained In Iran On Allegations Of Spying For Israel

An Iranian-Swedish dual national is detained in Iran, accused of spying for Israel and represented by legal counsel, with Sweden in contact with his family.
Information security
fromTheregister
2 months ago

China's Ink Dragon hides out in European government networks

Ink Dragon expanded espionage into European government networks, using compromised servers as relay nodes, stealing credentials and updating backdoors to blend with Microsoft cloud activity.
fromLondon Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
2 months ago

Spies hiding in plain sight across the UK and MI5 issues an alert - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com

The plan will see the intelligence services deliver security briefings for political parties and issue new guidance to election candidates to help them recognise, resist and report suspicious activity; work with professional networking sites to make them a more hostile operating environment for spies; and tighten rules on political donations through a new Elections Bill. He will add that the government will continue to take further action against China-based actors involved in malicious cyber activity against the UK and our allies.
UK politics
#cuba
Information security
fromTheregister
3 months ago

Microsoft fixes Windows shortcut flaw exploited for years

A Windows .lnk shortcut parsing flaw (CVE-2025-9491) allowed hidden command arguments and covert code execution; Microsoft silently mitigated it in November 2025.
#china-uk-relations
France news
fromwww.independent.co.uk
3 months 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
3 months ago

Turkish authorities arrest three defence executives accused of spying

Three executives of defence companies have been arrested by Turkish authorities on suspicion of spying for foreign powers, prosecutors say. An operation was carried out on November 25, 2025, to apprehend four individuals identified in connection with the conspiracy, the Istanbul public prosecutor's office said in a statement on Tuesday. list of 3 itemsend of list As a result of the operation, three individuals were apprehended, and an arrest warrant was issued for one individual due to being abroad.
Black Lives Matter
fromwww.aljazeera.com
3 months 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
Film
fromenglish.elpais.com
3 months ago

Bjrn Hallstrm, the man who deceived all of Scandinavia

A son investigates whether his retired television journalist father was secretly a CIA agent, retracing decades of reporting trips and interviewing former colleagues.
History
fromwww.mercurynews.com
3 months ago

Today in History: November 21, Navy intelligence analyst accused of spying for Israel

November 21 marks varied historical events including espionage arrests, political resignations, deadly attacks and disasters, infrastructure openings, and high-profile criminal sentences.
US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
3 months 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
3 months ago

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

"I wholeheartedly embrace an 'Israel first' doctrine,"
US politics
fromTheregister
3 months 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
UK politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
3 months ago

Britain's MI5 warns lawmakers over Chinese spies posing as headhunters'

MI5 warns Chinese actors used fake headhunters, LinkedIn outreach, and bogus job ads to target UK parliamentarians, universities, and holders of sensitive government information.
History
fromwww.fireislandnews.com
3 months 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.
fromInquisitr News
3 months ago

New York Governor Kathy Hochul's Former Deputy Chief of Staff Accused of Being Chinese Agent

Linda Sun stands accused of being a Chinese agent. She previously served as a high-ranking official at the Chinese Consulate in New York and as an aide to two New York governors, Kathy Hochul and Andrew Cuomo. Sun and her husband, Chris Hu, are charged with money laundering and fraud. Their trial, which will take place in Brooklyn, New York, centers on their alleged years-long work as agents for China.
US politics
Information security
fromThe Hacker News
3 months 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.
UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

Man jailed for seven years after sharing Grant Shapps' details with Russian spies'

Howard Phillips jailed seven years for giving defence secretary Grant Shapps's personal details to men he believed were Russian agents, aiding a foreign intelligence service.
Information security
fromTechCrunch
4 months 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.
fromenglish.elpais.com
4 months ago

A Hungarian spy scandal in Brussels implicates Viktor Orban's EU commissioner

Brussels is a city teeming with spies. Russians, Iranians, Israelis, Chinese They all move about, seeking information within European institutions and NATO, or to obtain intelligence from the hundreds of organizations headquartered in the Belgian capital. Now, a European espionage scandal has rocked the EU and diplomatic circles in Brussels. The European Commission is investigating whether the Hungarian intelligence services worked to recruit a network of spies among European officials. And, above all, whether its current Commissioner for Health and Consumer
Miscellaneous
Information security
fromThe Hacker News
4 months 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
4 months 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.
Information security
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months 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.
Miscellaneous
fromwww.dw.com
4 months ago

Germany news: Munich court jails man for spying for Russia DW 10/30/2025

A 41-year-old German-Russian man received six years for spying for Russia and planning sabotage in Germany; two accomplices received suspended sentences.
Miscellaneous
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

Ukraine war briefing: British ex-soldier arrested in Kyiv and accused of spying for Russia

A British ex-army instructor in Kyiv was arrested for allegedly spying for Russia and passing sensitive military information, facing up to 12 years in prison.
Information security
fromFuturism
4 months 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
4 months 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
4 months 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.
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

You're in spy territory': how two UK nationals got tangled in a Chinese espionage row

The young parliamentary researcher, then in his late 20s, was a China specialist working successively for two influential backbenchers, Tom Tugendhat and Alicia Kearns. He had a parliamentary pass and was plugged into Westminster's gossip network during 2022, a year of Conservative turmoil in Westminster, three prime ministers and future policy uncertainty. At the same time, Cash was in close contact with a friend, Christopher Berry, a teacher based in Hangzhou, eastern China, where the Britons had first met five years earlier.
UK politics
Books
fromenglish.elpais.com
4 months ago

John le Carre's tradecraft: A writer who was once a spy

John le Carré adopted meticulous field research and tradecraft after a factual Hong Kong tunnel error prompted in-person verification and textual correction.
World news
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

A high-level operator': Cai Qi's rapid rise to become Xi Jinping's right-hand man

Cai Qi, Xi Jinping's de facto chief of staff and a top CCP official, is suspected ringleader of an alleged Westminster Chinese spy ring.
fromVulture
4 months 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
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