Espionage or spying involves a government or individual obtaining information considered secret or confidential without the permission of the holder of the information. Espionage is inherently clandestine, as it is taken for granted that it is unwelcome and, in many cases illegal and punishable by law. It is a subset of intelligence gathering—which otherwise may be conducted from public sources and using perfectly legal and ethical means.
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Chinese state-backed hackers are compromising telecom operators to steal text messages
China's state-backed APT41 has developed MESSAGETAP malware to monitor and save SMS traffic from specific phone numbers for ...
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Russian cyber spooks piggyback Iranian hackers to spy on 35 countries
Russia-backed Turla threat actor has been found to piggyback on hacking tools developed by Iranian threat groups to mount ...
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Chinese communist party’s app is reportedly spying on its 100M users
A report from the German cybersecurity firm Cure53 suggests the Chinese communist party's app, Study the Great Nation, ...
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Chinese hacking group targets Southeast Asian governments with data-stealing malware
A threat group responsible for a series of malware-based espionage attacks has been increasingly targeting the Southeast ...
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Overstock's blockchain mad CEO resigns after disclosing romantic relationship with suspected Russian spy
The blockchain-mad CEO of online retailer Overstock has stepped down amid a confession that he was romantically involved ...
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Google, Apple, and Mozilla won't budge on Kazakhstan's sneaky plot to spy on citizens
Google and Mozilla are deploying a technical solution to block the use of Kazakhstan root CA certificate Qaznet Trust Network ...
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Secretive 'Machete' hacker group steals GBs worth of sensitive files from the Venezuelan military
ESET researchers uncover a cyber-espionage campaign — operated by Machete — stealing sensitive documents from the Venezuelan ...
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We gave US police, ICE, and CBP AI without regulations in 2016: Now it's 1984
This weekend's ICE raids are essentially a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the government's surveillance state. The same AI-powered ...
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MySpace employees reportedly read your mid-2000s DMs
Long before Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram ruled the social media world, there was Myspace. One of the earliest social ...
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The CIA wants you to believe it traded assassinations and espionage for likes and shares
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has a bit of a reputation. Depending on what side you're on, it's either a necessary ...
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Starwood breach affecting 500M users reportedly part of a larger Chinese state-sponsored attack
The New York Times reports that the Starwood breach was part of a larger state-sponsored intelligence-gathering effort spurred ...
