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Who needs James Bond when you have The 355? Monday night saw the drop of the action-packed first trailer for the spy caper The 355, which stars Jessica Chastain, Lupita Nyong’o, Diane Kruger, Penelope Cruz and Bingbing Fan as a group of international spies who band together to prevent World War III. Set to an ambient mix of … Read more
Boris Johnson and the Queen are among 40,000 Britons listed on a database compiled by a Chinese tech firm with reported links to Beijing’s military and intelligence networks, it can be disclosed. Files on senior British politicians including the Prime Minister, members of the Royal Family, UK military officers and their families, and religious leaders … Read more
2010 – Sergei Skripal, a former Russian military intelligence officer jailed for spying for Britain, is released and flown to the UK as part of a swap with Russian agents caught in the United States. He settles in Salisbury. March 3, 2018 – Yulia Skripal arrives at Heathrow Airport from Russia to visit her father … Read more
Russian intelligence operatives are using a trio of English-language websites to spread disinformation about the coronavirus pandemic, seeking to exploit a crisis that America is struggling to contain ahead of the presidential election in November, U.S. officials said Tuesday. Two Russians who have held senior roles in Moscow’s military intelligence service known as the GRU … Read more
MI5 are to be granted tough new powers to make the UK a harsher environment for Kremlin spies to operate in after a damning report by MPs said the Government ‘took its eye off the ball.’ In a devastating and long-awaited report, intelligence and security committee said the UK ‘badly underestimated’ the Russian threat as … Read more
Open secret: Iranian spies accidentally leak videos of themselves showing how to hack and steal data from email accounts Video of Iran-backed hackers training other hackers was uploaded by mistake Footage showed hackers combing through email accounts and copying data The footage was spotted by IBM’s X-Force security team and shared with Wired The rare … Read more
A businessman awarded a peerage by Harold Wilson had a decade-long relationship with Communist-era spies who considered him so useful that they referred to him as ‘intelligence agency staff’. According to more than 1,000 documents unearthed at archives in Prague, Rudy Sternberg was meeting agents from Czechoslovakia’s Statni Bezpecnost (StB) secret police in the 1960s … Read more
Spies and hackers can eavesdrop on conversations from 82 feet (25 metres) away by analysing the vibration patterns in a hanging light bulb, a study has found. The ‘lamphone’ technique discovered by security experts from Israel needs only a laptop and gear — including a telescope and sensor — costing less than just £1,000. According … Read more
Scarlett Moffatt has claimed drones are being disguised as pigeons as a spying tool in her latest bizarre theory. The former Gogglebox star, 30, discussed her odd thesis with Joe Swash on a new edition of the Scarlett Wants To Believe podcast, where she also insisted the government is ‘listening to everything we say’ through … Read more
An intelligence report sent to the White House last week concluded coronavirus numbers coming out of China are fake China’s reporting on coronavirus is intentionally incomplete, three U.S. officials revealed in a Wednesday report, adding its government is underreporting statistics on both the death toll and number of cases. The intelligence community handed over a … Read more