The Netherlands could screen around 8,000 incoming university researchers a year, as national intelligence services across the EU fear an uptick in academic espionage.
https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/netherlands-proposes-anti-spy-checks-at-universities/
Russian sensors trying to track nuclear submarines have been found in a campaign of ‘greyzone’ warfare that also targets the UK's energy and internet. Even oligarchs’ superyachts are in on it.
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/article/russia-secret-war-uk-waters-submarines-dpbzphfx5
Archive: https://archive.is/UWXk4
#KRITIS Sektor #Staat und #Verwaltung
Hackers hit Ukrainian state agencies, critical infrastructure with new ‘Wrecksteel’ malware
"Ukraine recorded at least three cyberattacks in March targeting #government agencies and critical infrastructure with new #spying #malware."
#KRITIS
https://therecord.media/hackers-ukraine-critical-infrastructure-malware
6 Australian universities have quietly closed Chinese government-linked Confucius Institutes on their campuses.
The Australian government has ramped up scrutiny on the education centres over concerns that Beijing is using them to spread propaganda and spy on Chinese international students.
I think Ateneo de Manila hosts a Confucius Institute.
#Asian #Propaganda #Spying #Australia #Universities #UNSW #Melbourne
A New Tool to Detect Cellular #Spying | EFFector 37.3
This edition of the newsletter covers our new open source tool to detect cellular spying, #Rayhunter ; The #Foilies2025 , our tongue-in-cheek awards to the worst responses to public records requests; and our recommendations to the #NSF for the new #AI Action Plan to put people first.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/new-tool-detect-cellular-spying-effector-373
Spycop HN85 Roger Pearce 'Roger Thorley' infiltrated anarchist groups 1979-84. He gave evidence to the spycops public inquiry in July 2024. The Inquiry hasn't posted video of him being questioned on its YouTube channel, so we've posted it on ours.
Thorley wrote anti-police articles while undercover. Afterwards he became a Special Branch manager before retiring in 2003 to write awful novels.
A network of companies operated by a secretive Chinese tech firm has been trying to recruit recently laid-off U.S. government workers, according to job ads and a researcher who uncovered the campaign.
Don't bother to follow me during the next 2 months if you have no pictures, no introduction, or no significant history or proof you are not a bot. I will block you and if i find anything suspicious report you. Exceptions are allowed based on proof of humanity. #disinformation #misinformation #electioninterference #spying
RCBC Plaza is scrambling to explain how one of the country's biggest Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs), Flying Future, was running illegal operations right under its nose before being raided by authorities.
Canadian, Irish, German and Australian embassies are in the building. POGOs are believed to be fronts for spying by the Chnese government.
#Philippines #Asian #Spying #Espionage #Makati #EU #Embassies #Canada #Australia @pinoy
#Microsoft isn't fixing 8-year-old zero day used for #spying • The Register
'Only' a local access bug but important part of N Korea, #Russian, and #China attack picture
#security #zeroday #0day #northkorea
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/18/microsoft_trend_flaw/
This now banned dragnet surveillance tactic was used to great effect in Seattle for the most petty of reasons.... there was a protest at the Police Union building.
Little to no property damage or other harm was reported (other than the cops beating ppl of course) none the less the fucking FBI built a case entirely on dragnet phone spying tools fit for a Tom Clancy novel.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/5/22918487/fbi-geofence-seattle-blm-protest-police-guild-attack
A man from a shadowy group named after Vlad the Impaler met with an alleged Russian spy at a Bucharest restaurant to plot the overthrow of the Romanian state, according to documents seen by RFE/RL’s Romanian service.
https://www.rferl.org/a/romania-vlad-the-impaler-group-russia-coup-plot-treason/33348058.html
In Memoriam: #MarkKlein, #ATT #Whistleblower Who Revealed #NSA #MassSpying
When the New York Times reported in late 2005 that the NSA was engaging in #spying inside the #US, Mark realized that he had witnessed how it was happening. He also realized that the President was not telling Americans the truth about the program. And, though newly retired, he knew that he had to do something.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/memoriam-mark-klein-att-whistleblower-about-nsa-mass-spying #surveillance #privacy
In Memoriam: Mark Klein, AT&T #Whistleblower Who Revealed #NSA Mass #Spying
#privacy #security #surveillance #fisa
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/memoriam-mark-klein-att-whistleblower-about-nsa-mass-spying
A Russian diplomat recalled from Brussels amid a spy purge by Belgian authorities has been nominated to head the Belgrade mission of Europe's largest security body, a joint investigation by RFE/RL and several European media outlets has found.
More than 100 spied-on individuals & groups have told the #spycops public inquiry they won't be giving evidence unless they're given more time. The Inquiry has delayed its next hearings by 7 months, but is keeping witnesses to earlier impossible deadlines
Three people guilty of #spying for russia from Great Yarmouth (UK) seaside guesthouse
The group were dubbed "the Minions", Despicable Me's yellow sidekicks. Instead of a cartoon evil mastermind Gru, the defendants acted as spies working for the russian intelligence service, also known as GRU.
https://news.sky.com/story/three-people-guilty-of-spying-for-russia-from-seaside-guesthouse-13316246
Meet #Rayhunter: A New #OpenSource Tool from @eff to Detect Cellular #Spying
#CSS (also known as #Stingrays or #IMSIcatchers) are devices that masquerade as legitimate cell-phone towers, tricking #phones within a certain radius into connecting to the device rather than a tower.
#privacy #security #surveillance #imsi #cellphones #celltower
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying
Helen Steel was 22 when she fell in love with John Barker. Except he wasn't real - he was actually Special Demonstration Squad officer John Dines who'd stolen the identity of a boy who'd died of leukaemia aged 8.
They were living together, then John suddenly disappeared. Helen knew something wasn't right and did pioneering detective work that brought the spycops scandal out into the light.
https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/tricked-sexual-relationship-undercover-policeman-3560318
