Tag: spies

• AI-Powered Text From This Program Could Fool the Government

  January 15, 2021

  In October 2019, Idaho proposed changing its Medicaid program. The state needed approval from the federal government, which solicited public feedback via Medicaid.gov. Roughly 1,000 comments arrived. But half came… more ›

• French and Russian Influence Operations Go Head to Head Targeting Audiences in Africa

  December 22, 2020

  On December 15, Facebook announced that it had taken down three separate networks that it had discovered for “coordinated inauthentic behavior” that targeted communities across Africa. One, centered on the Central African… more ›

• Analyzing Solorigate, the compromised DLL file that started a sophisticated cyberattack, and how Microsoft Defender helps protect customers

  December 22, 2020

  We, along with the security industry and our partners, continue to investigate the extent of the Solorigate attack. https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2020/12/18/analyzing-solorigate-the-compromised-dll-file-that-started-a-sophisticated-cyberattack-and-how-microsoft-defender-helps-protect/ more ›

• FSB Team of Chemical Weapon Experts Implicated in Alexey Navalny Novichok Poisoning

  December 14, 2020

  We have detailed the research methodology for this investigation into a separate article. You can read it here. https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2020/12/14/fsb-team-of-chemical-weapon-experts-implicated-in-alexey-navalny-novichok-poisoning/ more ›

• Secret deal reveals how Chinese spies are given free rein in Switzerland

  December 9, 2020

  The full text of a secret deal between Switzerland and China that allowed Chinese security officials access to the country at Swiss taxpayers’ expense has been revealed for the first time as… more ›

• New White Paper on China’s Full-Spectrum Information Operations

  July 28, 2020

  Today the Stanford Internet Observatory published a joint white paper with the Hoover Institution examining China’s covert and overt capabilities in the context of modern information operations. https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/new-whitepaper-telling-chinas-story more ›

• Exclusive: Obscure Indian cyber firm spied on politicians, investors worldwide

  June 10, 2020

  LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A little-known Indian IT firm offered its hacking services to help clients spy on more than 10,000 email accounts over a period of seven years. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-cyber-mercenaries-exclusive-idUSKBN23G1GQ more ›

• Trump Is Waging War on America’s Diplomats

  December 3, 2019

  Last year, just before Halloween, Lewis Lukens, the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. https://www.gq.com/story/trump-is-waging-war-on-american-diplomats more ›

• Would-Be Chinese Defector Details Covert Campaigns in Hong Kong and Taiwan

  November 23, 2019

  The claims by an asylum seeker in Australia couldn’t be independently verified, but Western officials are treating them seriously. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/22/world/asia/defector-spy-taiwan-hong-kong.html more ›

• ‘A New Message’: Russia Trains Its Propaganda Machine on Africa

  October 30, 2019

  Many of the players who drove Moscow’s campaign for influence in the West are now backing Putin’s African charm offensive. SOCHI, Russia — Jose Matemulane said he left his native… more ›