Hackers working for the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) attacked about 40 selected “high-value” targets around the world by sending phishing emails while posing as technical support for the Microsoft Teams application. Microsoft security teams have identified the hackers as “Midnight Blizzard”, a Russian hacking team that usually works for …
The French intelligence service has moved against a Russian operation aimed at stealing Western technology. They had been watching a company named Ommic and this week arrested executives of the company together with the businessman who had majority control of the shares. Interstingly, that businessman was not Russian as you …
Ken McCallum, Director General of MI5 (UK Security Service), has highlighted the fact that universities are prime targets for enemy intelligence services. He was giving a lecture at the University of Glasgow in June. The reason he chose Glasgow for the speech is because he studied mathematics there in his …
Moldova is a small country (just 2 million people) on the western flank of Ukraine. As a former Russian republic until 1991, it is a prime target for Russian espionage efforts. But on July 26 Moldova’s foreign ministry announced that it was forcing 45 suspected Russian intelligence officers to leave …
Turkey has been outraged by recent incidents in Sweden where right-wing activists have publicly burned copies of the Koran. However, the Swedish defence ministry has said that these incidents have been manufactured by Russian agents. Carl-Oskar Bohlin, the Civil Defence Minister said: “Sweden is the target of a disinformation campaign …