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Massive browser hijack: extensions turn Trojan and infect 2.3M Chrome and Edge users Last updated: 14 July 2025 Eighteen extensions had a “squeaky clean” codebase, sometimes for years, until a version bump turned them into dangerous trojans without any user input. Security researchers warn that over 2.3 million users have just been compromised, but there […]
Exposed Undersea: PLA Navy Officer Reflections on China’s Not-So-Silent Service By Ryan D. Martinson While much of the international attention on China’s naval buildup is focused on its rapidly modernizing surface fleet, the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) is also taking bold steps to field a first-rate submarine force. By the end of this year, the […]
Propaganda Girls: This Week at SPY A Conversation with author Lisa Rogak Tuesday, June 17 | 6:30 PM ET | FREE! Registration required. One of the most covert and successful military campaigns of WWII was also bloodless—the sole aim was to break the morale of Axis soldiers. Betty MacDonald was a 28-year-old reporter from Hawaii. […]
‘War raging in the Atlantic’: Russian spy sensors found near UK shores, raising security concerns’ The British military identified the devices after several washed ashore and were located by the Royal Navy, according to a report One of Britain’s Vanguard nuclear submarines, HMS Vigilant, at a naval base in Scotland. AFP File Russian sensors suspected […]
Can You Help Spies Crack ‘Impossible’ WWII Pigeon Code? By Lee Ferran November 23, 2012 The best of the British code breakers have apparently met their match in a WWII-era secret message recently discovered attached to the leg of a long-dead pigeon. Cryptographers at Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the spy agency in charge of signals intelligence, […]
A World War II-era guide to tailing a target, and files on notorious double agents such as Kim Philby, feature in MI5: Official Secrets show Reading Time: 2 minutes Agence France-Presse Published: 3:15pm, 14 Jan 2025 Updated: 3:37pm, 14 Jan 2025
Despite a proud cadre of high-ranking female intelligence officers, declassified documents reveal the agency’s long struggle with women as agents. On December 16, 1941, nine days after Pearl Harbor, a mother of three from Maryland named Adelaide Hawkins signed an affidavit with the U.S. Office of Strategic Services [OSS] in Washington saying she would “defend the Constitution […]
Man Charged in Leak of Classified Documents About Israeli Military Plans The man, who worked overseas for the C.I.A., was arrested on Tuesday by the F.B.I. and faces two counts of violating the Espionage Act Israeli tanks near the border with Gaza last month. The information in the leaked documents is highly classified and shed […]
By Olivia Christie Published: 06:38 EDT, 17 August 2024 | Updated: 06:50 EDT, 17 August 2024 A new ‘spy-in-the-sky’ satellite has been launched into space by the UK military to help keep an eye on the nation’s enemies. Named Tyche, it is UK Space Command’s first satellite that can capture daytime images and videos of the Earth’s surface and will […]
by Press Trust of India June 13, 2024 New Delhi- Ajit Doval, one of India’s most celebrated spymasters, has been part of many key decisions taken by the Modi government in its first and second terms as the country’s National Security Adviser (NSA). He was on Thursday re-appointed as the NSA for a record third term, the […]