Espionage
Russia Expected to Increase Critical Infrastructure Attacks
Russia’s war strategy increasingly involves cybersecurity, with the country expected to ramp up attacks on critical infrastructure in Ukraine and countries that are members of NATO, according to Switzerland’s Federal Intelligence Service ...
Federal Appellate Court Approves ‘Pretext’ Border Search
For almost nine years, Chinese national and U.S. resident Haitao Xiang had been employed by the Monsanto company in St. Louis, Missouri, as a research application engineer specializing in hyperspectral imaging technology ...
When History Repeats | Insider Risk Lessons from the Pentagon Leaks
The arrest of a junior US air national guardsman for taking and sharing classified military intelligence is less a story about data theft or even war. It’s a story about how sensitive ...
Chinese Tech: Banned in DC, but not in the States
There’s a massive loophole in the federal ban on Chinese technology from sus firms such as Huawei and ZTE: It doesn’t stop states from buying it ...
NSA Employee Charged with Espionage
An ex-NSA employee has been charged with trying to sell classified data to the Russians (but instead actually talking to an undercover FBI agent). It’s a weird story, and the FBI affidavit ...
Security Vulnerabilities in Covert CIA Websites
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, ...
Amy Zegart on Spycraft in the Internet Age
Amy Zegart has a new book: Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence. Wired has an excerpt: In short, data volume and accessibility are revolutionizing sensemaking. The intelligence ...
Using Foreign Nationals to Bypass US Surveillance Restrictions
Remember when the US and Australian police surreptitiously owned and operated the encrypted cell phone app ANOM? They arrested 800 people in 2021 based on that operation. New documents received by Motherboard ...
Malicious Life Podcast: In Defense of the NSA
The National Security Agency is one of the world's most formidable and powerful intelligence agencies. Some people fear that the NSA’s advanced capabilities could one day be directed inwards instead of outwards ...
Malicious Life Podcast: Operation GhostShell – An Iranian Espionage Campaign
In July 2021, Nocturnus - the Cybereason Threat Research and Intelligence team - was called to investigate an espionage campaign targeting Aerospace and Telecommunications companies globally. Their investigation resulted in the discovery ...
