Tag: spies

• None Dare Call It a Conspiracy

  January 15, 2026

  From the GQ archives: Who was behind the 1999 Moscow apartment bombings that accelerated Vladimir Putin’s rise to power? https://www.gq.com/story/moscow-bombings-mikhail-trepashkin-and-putin more ›

• Our Jan in Moscow: The secret Russian life of Europe’s most notorious fugitive-turned-spy

  September 21, 2025

  Ever since the summer of 2020, when German payments giant Wirecard collapsed after failing to account for €1.9 billion in missing assets, its former COO Jan Marsalek has been a… more ›

• Two-Factor Authentication Codes Take Insecure Path to Users

  June 17, 2025

  An investigation into the complexity of the global telecom system shows weaknesses in the transmission of secret codes sent via SMS. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-16/two-factor-authentication-codes-take-insecure-path-to-users?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc1MDA3MjI1NywiZXhwIjoxNzUwNjc3MDU3LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTWFkzV1dEV0xVNjgwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJENTY5QzIyNzE4NUM0NkM4OTgxMjBGMUI2QTBFNDIwQSJ9.DVIEfSgG1GrhW7bcbImfrZ2LeYhkmPbTC9SlfwmVe-g&leadSource=uverify%20wall more ›

• UK domestic spy agency MI5 to reveal some of its secrets in London exhibition

  January 24, 2025

  Avoid facial disguises, carry loose change and be ready to make split-second decisions: just some of the advice Britain’s domestic spy agency gave recruits tailing subjects nearly a century ago.… more ›

• How Israel’s bulky pager fooled Hezbollah

  October 16, 2024

  BEIRUT, Oct 16 (Reuters) – The batteries inside the weaponised pagers that arrived in Lebanon at the start of the year, part of an Israeli plot to decimate Hezbollah, had powerfully deceptive… more ›

• What I found on the secretive tropical island they don’t want you to see

  September 29, 2024

  Diego Garcia, a remote island in the Indian Ocean, is a paradise of lush vegetation and white-sand beaches, surrounded by crystal blue waters. But this is no tourist destination. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckdg7jjlx2go more ›

• Everything is espionage: Things I learned researching Assange

  March 24, 2024

  Who is this Julian Assange guy? Is he good or bad? Did he do espionage? Why is the US so obsessed with getting its hands on him? At dynomight.net we… more ›

• How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets—and Vladimir Putin

  March 3, 2024

  In 2019, a government contractor and technologist named Mike Yeagley began making the rounds in Washington, DC. He had a blunt warning for anyone in the country’s national security establishment… more ›

• A most wanted man: Fugitive Wirecard COO Jan Marsalek exposed as decade-long GRU spy

  March 3, 2024

    Fugitive Wirecard COO Jan Marsalek wasn’t just responsible for Germany’s largest financial fraud in history. He was also a decade-long Russian spy. This is a joint investigation with Der… more ›

• The Internet Enabled Mass Surveillance. A.I. Will Enable Mass Spying.

  December 7, 2023

  Spying 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, tap… more ›