A Russian spy ship on the edge of U.K. waters pointed lasers at British pilots for the first time in a "deeply dangerous” escalation. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/20/world/russian-spy-ship-british-pilots/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #russia #uk #espionage
MI5 warned U.K. lawmakers of new China-backed efforts to target them online, reigniting concerns about espionage by Beijing around Parliament. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/19/world/politics/mi5-uk-chinese-espionage/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #china #uk #espionage
Stéphane Bortzmeyer
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Où on apprend que les négociateurs européens au G7 utilisent #WhatsApp comme machine à café virtuelle pour discuter en "off". Donc #Meta, donc les #USA savent qui discute avec qui et quand en "off". L'illetrisme numérique de nos politiques est affligeant. Comme quoi convaincre son entourage de passer sur des solutions comme #signal est très important...
https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/podcasts/caroline-au-pays-des-27/caroline-au-pays-des-27-du-mardi-04-novembre-2025-4328656
Dan Goodin
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"Outside researchers weren’t convinced the discovery was the watershed moment the Anthropic posts made it out to be. They questioned why these sorts of advances are often attributed to malicious hackers when white-hat hackers and developers of legitimate software keep reporting only incremental gains from their use of AI."
Ars Technica: Researchers question Anthropic claim that AI-assisted attack was 90% autonomous https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/11/researchers-question-anthropic-claim-that-ai-assisted-attack-was-90-autonomous/ @arstechnica @dangoodin #Anthropic #infosec #espionage
"Outside researchers weren’t convinced the discovery was the watershed moment the Anthropic posts made it out to be. They questioned why these sorts of advances are often attributed to malicious hackers when white-hat hackers and developers of legitimate software keep reporting only incremental gains from their use of AI."
Ars Technica: Researchers question Anthropic claim that AI-assisted attack was 90% autonomous https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/11/researchers-question-anthropic-claim-that-ai-assisted-attack-was-90-autonomous/ @arstechnica @dangoodin #Anthropic #infosec #espionage
Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign
https://www.anthropic.com/news/disrupting-AI-espionage
#HackerNews #Disrupting #AI #Espionage #Cybersecurity #AI #News #Cyber #Espionage
Où on apprend que les négociateurs européens au G7 utilisent #WhatsApp comme machine à café virtuelle pour discuter en "off". Donc #Meta, donc les #USA savent qui discute avec qui et quand en "off". L'illetrisme numérique de nos politiques est affligeant. Comme quoi convaincre son entourage de passer sur des solutions comme #signal est très important...
https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/podcasts/caroline-au-pays-des-27/caroline-au-pays-des-27-du-mardi-04-novembre-2025-4328656
The recent China spy scandal in the U.K. highlights a chaotic, disorienting political and intelligence environment, resembling something more likely found in spy fiction rather than real-world espionage. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/10/28/world/uks-china-spy-scandal/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #uk #china #slowhorses #johnlecarre #espionage #m15
Greg Lloyd
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NYT reported Tues that #Trump “is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him.” Those are #DOJ probes into connections between Trump’s 2016 campaign & #Russia’s intelligence activities intended to help him win that election, & Trump’s alleged violation of the #Espionage Act, & other laws, by evading DOJ efforts to recover highly #ClassifiedDocuments that Trump lifted from the White House….
#law
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/trump-justice-doj-settlement-230-million/
NYT reported Tues that #Trump “is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him.” Those are #DOJ probes into connections between Trump’s 2016 campaign & #Russia’s intelligence activities intended to help him win that election, & Trump’s alleged violation of the #Espionage Act, & other laws, by evading DOJ efforts to recover highly #ClassifiedDocuments that Trump lifted from the White House….
#law
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/trump-justice-doj-settlement-230-million/
China said it’s uncovered "irrefutable evidence” of U.S. government cyber attacks on the country’s main agency responsible for timekeeping. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/19/asia-pacific/politics/china-evidence-us-cyber-attack/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #us #china #hacking #espionage
Britain's MI5 spy chief expressed frustration over a China spying case collapsing, which led to intense scrutiny of whether the government was to blame, saying Chinese operatives posed a daily national security threat. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/17/world/politics/mi5-china-spying-case/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #ukchina #espionage #surveillance
A former White House National Security Council staffer and current State Department adviser has been arrested and charged with illegally keeping more than 1,000 pages of classified documents at his home. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/16/world/politics/white-house-india-espionage-act/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #us #india #espionage #china
MI5 has issued a warning to British politicians and their staff that they are being targeted by spies from China, Russia and Iran in efforts geared toward undermining democracy in the United Kingdom. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/14/world/politics/mi5-uk-china-russia-spying/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #uk #mi5 #espionage #china #russia
Senior members of the British government are urging Prime Minister Keir Starmer to reassess his policy toward China and take a tougher stance on the risks it poses to U.K. national security. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/13/world/politics/starmer-china-policy-spying/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #keirstarmer #ukchina #espionage #labour
Chinese police offered rewards of $1,400 for information about 18 people it said were Taiwanese military psychological operations officers spreading "separatist" messages. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/11/asia-pacific/taiwan-china-psyops/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #taiwan #china #espionage #pla
Prime Minister Keir Starmer rejected accusations that Britain tried to appease China by dropping a prosecution against two men accused of spying for Beijing, saying the decision was based on legal constraints. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/09/world/politics/starmer-china-spying-case/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #keirstarmer #ukchina #espionage
China is providing intelligence to Russia to enable Moscow to better launch missile strikes inside Ukraine, a senior Ukrainian intelligence official was quoted as saying Saturday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/05/asia-pacific/china-intelligence-russia-ukraine/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #russia #ukraine #russiaukrainewar #china #espionage
Nippon Ishin no Kai plans to submit an anti-espionage bill, including a call for establishing a foreign intelligence agency based on existing government bodies, to an upcoming extraordinary session of the Diet. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/02/japan/politics/nippon-ishin-anti-espionage-bill/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #nipponishinnokai #diet #espionage
