Collaborate Disseminate
The leaked documents suggested that a top Kremlin general would sabotage the war while Putin is distracted with cancer treatments. Continue reading Leaked Pentagon Docs Share Wild Rumor: Kremlin Plans to ‘Throw’ Putin’s War While He’s Getting Chemo
You know the old trope: James Bond is killed but it turns out to be someone else in an incredibly good-looking Sean Connery mask. Mission: Impossible and Scooby Doo regularly …read more Continue reading Spy Tech: CIA Masks in Five Minutes or Less
There’s an old joke that the world’s greatest secret agent was Beethoven. Didn’t know Beethoven was a secret agent? That’s why he was the greatest one! While most people have some idea about the CIA, MI6, and the GRU, agencies like the NRO and GCHQ keep a much lower profile. …read more
Continue reading Inside the Top Secret Doughnut: a Visit to GCHQ
The DoJ charges former Twitter employees for allegedly accessing thousands of accounts on behalf of Saudi Arabia. Continue reading Ex-Twitter Employees Spied on Saudi Dissidents: DoJ
WhatsApp has publicly attributed the attack on its users in May 2019 to the Israeli spyware makers, NSO Group. Continue reading WhatsApp sues spyware maker for allegedly hacking phones worldwide
The fitness app Polar Flow exposes the whereabouts of some of its high-profile users, including “spies” and those with sensitive positions in the military. Continue reading Polar Fitness App Exposes Location of ‘Spies’ and Military Personnel
The director of GCHQ revealed in a speech on Thursday that Britain’s top signals intelligence agency had conducted a proactive cyber campaign against ISIS, touting the notion of using hacking tools to counter violent extremism. Speaking at the CYBERUK conference in Manchester, England, GCHQ Director Jeremy Fleming said that the agency worked with the U.K. Ministry of Defense to develop and deploy the country’s cyber weapons. “Much of this is too sensitive to talk about, but I can tell you that GCHQ, in partnership with the Ministry of Defense, has conducted a major offensive cyber-campaign against Daesh,” Fleming said, using the terror group’s Arabic acronym. Fleming said the attack was the first time the U.K. “systematically and persistently degraded an adversary’s online efforts as part of a wider military campaign.” “They [ISIS] understand the value of strategic communications, the power of social media, of messaging apps to radicalize and scare,” […]
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If you ever watch a spy movie, you’ve doubtlessly seen some nameless tech character sweep a room for bugs using some kind of detector and either declare it clean or find the hidden microphone in the lamp. Of course, as a hacker, you have to start thinking about how that would work. If you had a bug that transmits all the time, that’s easy. The lamp probably shouldn’t be emitting RF energy all the time, so that’s easy to detect and a dead give away. But what if the bug were more sophisticated? Maybe it wakes up every hour and …read more
An “emerging” international cyber-espionage campaign by a group with suspected ties to the Chinese government is affecting a growing number of companies globally, according to a warning from the U.S. government. Cybersecurity researchers and intelligence analysts have been tracking the hacker group known as APT10 or MenuPass Group since at least 2009. In the past, the group has targeted construction, engineering, aerospace and telecom companies as well as government agencies in the U.S., Europe and Japan. APT10’s past activity suggests it acts in “support of Chinese national security goals, including acquiring valuable military and intelligence information as well as the theft of confidential business data to support Chinese corporations,” according to cybersecurity firm FireEye, which has extensively monitored and studied the group. The U.S. National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center continues to review APT10’s recent activity and said it is working with victims “across different sectors,” according to a U.S. Computer […]
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Former FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, a Civil War history buff, tells us about how the fine art of spying on your political and military enemies’ communications got started. Continue reading Wiretapping Is as American as Apple Pie
