BND in more trouble

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. …

Ukrainian intelligence decides to play a trick

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 …

SVR makes rare appearance

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 …