Silk Typhoon Hackers Indicted
March 12 2025Lots of interesting details in the story:
The US Department of Justice on Wednesday announced the indictment of 12 Chinese individuals accused of more than a decade of...
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NSO Group Spies on People on Behalf of Governments
November 27 2024The Israeli company NSO Group sells Pegasus spyware to countries around the world (including countries like Saudi Arabia, UAE, India, Mexico, Morocco and Rwanda). We assumed that those countries...
Read moreStory of an Undercover CIA Agent who Penetrated Al Qaeda
August 21 2024Rolling 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”...
Read moreThe US Is Banning Kaspersky
June 26 2024This move has been coming for a long time.
The Biden administration on Thursday said it’s banning the company from selling its products to new US-based customers starting on...
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Espionage with a Drone
June 6 2024The US is using a World War II law that bans aircraft photography of military installations to charge someone with doing the same thing with a drone.
Read moreWhale Song Code
April 29 2024During the Cold War, the US Navy tried to make a secret code out of whale song.
The basic plan was to develop coded messages from recordings of whales,...
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Microsoft Is Spying on Users of Its AI Tools
February 20 2024Microsoft announced that it caught Chinese, Russian, and Iranian hackers using its AI tools—presumably coding tools—to improve their hacking abilities.
From their report:
In collaboration with OpenAI, we are...
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AI and Mass Spying
December 5 2023Spying and surveillance are different but related things. If I hired a private detective to spy on you, that detective could hide a bug in your home or car,...
Read moreFake Signal and Telegram Apps in the Google Play Store
September 14 2023Google removed fake Signal and Telegram apps from its Play store.
An app with the name Signal Plus Messenger was available on Play for nine months and had been...
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China Hacked Japan’s Military Networks
August 14 2023The NSA discovered the intrusion in 2020—we don’t know how—and alerted the Japanese. The Washington Post has the story:
The hackers had deep, persistent access and appeared to be...
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