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#espionage

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.

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.

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.

"I wholeheartedly embrace an 'Israel first' doctrine,"

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.

The rocket itself is also of interest: the body, materials and engine.

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

Salt Typhoon is an espionage gang linked to the People's Republic of China that hacked America's major telecommunications firms and stole metadata and other information belonging to " nearly every American," according to a top FBI cyber official who spoke with The Register about the intrusions. The crew's actions against US telcos came to light last year; however, it has been active since at least 2019.

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

It is based on a range of sources, including insiders from the Hungarian intelligence service and permanent representation, as well as EU officials who had dealt with the spies themselves. Later on Thursday, Reuters news agency reported that a European Commission spokesperson announced that the Commission had voted to open an investigation into allegations that Hungary was spying on European institutions.

A Chinese state-sponsored hacking group tracked as 'Phantom Taurus' has been targeting government and telecommunications organizations for espionage for more than two years, Palo Alto Networks reports. Initially observed in 2023, the APT was only recently linked to Chinese hacking groups through shared infrastructure, as its tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) differ from those typically associated with threat actors operating out of China. "These enable the group to conduct highly covert operations and maintain long-term access to critical targets," says Palo Alto Networks.

Lady Manningham-Buller argued that the situation had changed since the invasion of Ukraine and the various things I read about that the Russians have been doing here sabotage, intelligence collection, attacking people and so on. Speaking on a podcast in which she was interviewed by the lord speaker, John McFall, she then referenced Hill, who advised Donald Trump during his first term as US president and co-authored the UK's strategic defence review. I think she may be right in saying we're already at war with Russia. It's a different sort of war, but the hostility, the cyber-attacks, the physical attacks, the intelligence work is extensive, she said.

A letter penned by Republican Chairman John Moolenaar and Democratic Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi of the House Select Committee on China shows a decadelong history of a shared address for Futurewei Technologies Inc. at Nvidia's headquarters in Santa Clara, California. The lawmakers say that Futurewei held the prime lease on three buildings at the site before Nvidia acquired full control in 2024. The letter also cites a May filing that shows Futurewei is a subsidiary of Huawei.

Yuanjun Tang, 68, had long been an outspoken critic of the Chinese Communist Party, joining monthly protests outside the country's Manhattan consulate and founding a pro-democracy nonprofit in Flushing, Queens, where he has lived since 2002. But as he publicly advocated against his homeland's government, Tang was quietly acting on orders from Beijing's intelligence service to collect information on his fellow Chinese American activists, according to a guilty plea entered Tuesday.

You don't need to be a rocket scientist to understand why NASA implemented this policy: In July, dual Chinese/American citizen Chenguang Gong admitted to a lengthy industrial espionage campaign that saw him download information on sensors used by aircraft to confuse infrared-seeking missiles, plus data on radiation-hardened cameras that the US placed in orbit to give an early warning of incoming rockets and hypersonic vehicles. China has also recruited spies at the US Navy.

A statement from Eurojust, the European Union's criminal justice coordination body, said it had worked with Romanian, Czech and Hungarian authorities to capture an individual investigated for the crime of treason by way of transmitting state secrets. The Czech Republic expelled a Belarusian diplomat over the affair, as did Moldova. Eurojust did not identify the main suspect but the Hungarian news outlet Telex named him as Alexandru Balan, a former deputy head of the Moldovan intelligence service and for a time its liaison in Kyiv.

Following the success of " Squid Game," the storytelling flair found in Korean dramas has reached new heights in popularity. As with every style of television from every country, there have been pops and fizzles; still, there's something about the imaginative plots and constant cliffhangers that pulls American viewers back to our screens for more K-drama. In the new Hulu espionage thriller "Tempest," a prophetic dream precedes hard times, when an assassination attempt is merely the spark that ignites international conspiracies,

Left without a headstone amid lingering fears of retribution from Moscow, the gravesite of Igor Gouzenko and his wife Svetlana has been identified since 2002 by a large Muskoka rock bearing a plaque with their names and the phrase "We chose freedom for mankind." A small gathering at the grave this weekend marked 80 years since Gouzenko defected from the Soviet Union, smuggling 109 secret documents in his shirt out of the Ottawa embassy and delivering them to the offices of the Ottawa Journal newspaper.

An American man who worked at a U.S. military facility in Germany and allegedly offered to supply sensitive information to China has been indicted on espionage charges, German prosecutors said Monday. The suspect, identified only as Martin D. in line with German privacy rules, was arrested in Frankfurt in early November. In an indictment sent to the state court in Koblenz earlier this month, he is charged with having declared his willingness to engage in espionage for a foreign intelligence service, federal prosecutors said.

Starting Tuesday, Waymo vehicles and Uber and Lyft black cars will be permitted back on the mostly car-free section of Market Street below 10th Street. For Uber and Lyft, this will be a pilot program during off-peak hours only, after an April decision by Mayor Daniel Lurie to walk back the fully car-free policy. [Chronicle] A San Jose bus driver was attacked by a knife-wielding man following a confrontation on the bus, after the suspect was repeatedly pulling the stop-request cord.