Collaborate Disseminate
Rolling Stone has a long investigative story (non-paywalled version here) about a CIA agent who spent years posing as an Islamic radical.
Unrelated, but also in the “real life spies” file: a fake Sudanese diving resort run by Mossad.
Continue reading Story of an Undercover CIA Agent who Penetrated Al Qaeda
First-person account of someone who fell for a scam, that started as a fake Amazon service rep and ended with a fake CIA agent, and lost $50,000 cash. And this is not a naive or stupid person.
The details are fascinating. And if you think it couldnR… Continue reading Details of a Phone Scam
This is a fascinating story.
Last spring, a friend of a friend visited my office and invited me to Langley to speak to Invisible Ink, the CIA’s creative writing group.
I asked Vivian (not her real name) what she wanted me to talk about.
She said that the topic of the talk was entirely up to me.
I asked what level the writers in the group were.
She said the group had writers of all levels.
I asked what the speaking fee was.
She said that as far as she knew, there was no speaking fee.
What I want to know is, why haven’t I been invited? There are nonfiction writers in that group…
Continue reading Speaking to the CIA’s Creative Writing Group
U.S. intelligence agencies expect election interference to shift from targeting of voting systems to influencing social media.
The post Chinese, Russian interference attempts on 2022 midterms didn’t impact voting, intelligence agencies say appeared first on CyberScoop.
China is stepping up efforts to influence U.S. public opinion, which increasingly resemble Russian operations.
The post US intel: Chinese influence operations are growing more aggressive, more similar to Russia’s appeared first on CyberScoop.
Don’t you just hate it when you walk out of the bathroom with toilet paper stuck to your shoe? That’s a little bit like what happened when the Mars helicopter …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: October 9, 2022
Back in 2018, we learned that covert system of websites that the CIA used for communications was compromised by—at least—China and Iran, and that the blunder caused a bunch of arrests, imprisonments, and executions. We’re now learning that the CIA is still “using an irresponsibly secured system for asset communication.”
Citizen Lab did the research:
Using only a single website, as well as publicly available material such as historical internet scanning results and the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, we identified a network of 885 websites and have high confidence that the United States (US) Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) used these sites for covert communication…
Continue reading Security Vulnerabilities in Covert CIA Websites
By Deeba Ahmed
The Vault 7 leak included trojans, viruses, malware, zero-day exploits, malware remote control systems, and related documents dating…
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: CIA Whistleblower Found Guilty of Leakin… Continue reading CIA Whistleblower Found Guilty of Leaking Vault 7 Documents to WikiLeaks
Long article about Joshua Schulte, the accused leaker of the WikiLeaks Vault 7 and Vault 8 CIA data.
Well worth reading.
Continue reading Long Story on the Accused CIA Vault 7 Leaker
By Waqas
CIA’s darknet website will be accessible to Russians through the Tor internet browser. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)…
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: CIA Wants Russians to Share Secret Info with the Agenc… Continue reading CIA Wants Russians to Share Secret Info with the Agency via its Darknet Site