August Hanning and Gerhard Schindler, two former chiefs of the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), Germany’s Foreign Intelligence Service, have publicly criticised their former organisation by claiming that it needs to make considerable improvements if it is to “look Western allied services in the eye again.” They were wrting in Germany’s Bild newspaper. …
On 9 August a civil servant in Germany’s Defence Ministry has been arrested on suspicion of spying for Russia. He worked in procurement and has only been identified as “Thomas H.” He was arrested at his office in the Ministry. German invesitgators say that he approached the Russians rather than …
Wilhelm Wassmuss (1880-1931 or 1935). Most people have heard of T.E. Lawrence, the British military intelligence officer from the First World War, immortalised by the famous movie “Lawrence of Arabia”. But very few people know that there was another spy working in the same area at the same time who …
Widespread television coverage was recently given to Vladimir Putin’s celebration of “Russian Navy Day”. There were all the speeches, parades and razzamatazz that Putin loves. But, behind the scenes, the GUR, the Ukrainian military intelligence service, had been busy. Russian marines were pleased to find messages of support on their …
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 …