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
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
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