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In a Wary Arctic, Norway Starts to See Russian Spies Everywhere

TROMSO, Norway — In hindsight, some things just didn’t add up about Jose Giammaria.For one, the visiting researcher at the University of Tromso, in...

Many Military U.F.O. Reports Are Just Foreign Spying or Airborne Trash

WASHINGTON — Government officials believe that surveillance operations by foreign powers and weather balloons or other airborne clutter explain most recent incidents of unidentified...

U.S. Warns China Not to Turn Pelosi’s Expected Trip to Taiwan Into a ‘Crisis’

WASHINGTON — The United States warned China on Monday not to respond to an expected trip to Taiwan by Speaker Nancy Pelosi with military...

A Crumbling Russian ‘Spyville’ Returns to Polish Hands

WARSAW — Soviet diplomats moved out of the hulking Warsaw housing compound more than 30 years ago. But some Russians stayed behind, sheltering until...

Math That Helped Solve Fermat’s Theorem Now Safeguards the Digital World

Defenses against digital snoopers keep getting stronger. Encryption is what keeps communications safe when you use Signal and other messaging apps, make online financial...

The Battle for the World’s Most Powerful Cyberweapon

The Mexico example revealed both the promise and the perils of working with NSO. In 2017, researchers at Citizen Lab, a watchdog group based...

Pentagon Forms a Group to Examine Unexplained Aerial Sightings

While the unexplained sightings were mostly around military installations or operations, the report said that could be the result of collection bias or the...

Apple Sues Israeli Spyware Maker NSO Group

An opening for Apple’s lawsuit emerged in March, after NSO’s Pegasus spyware was discovered on the iPhone of a Saudi activist. Citizen Lab discovered...

The U.S. blacklists the NSO Group, an Israeli spyware firm.

The Biden administration blacklisted the NSO Group, an Israeli cyber-surveillance company, on Wednesday, saying that the company had supplied spyware that was used by...

Origin of Virus May Remain Murky, U.S. Intelligence Agencies Say

WASHINGTON — American intelligence agencies are unlikely to be able to draw a firm conclusion about the origin of the novel coronavirus without more...

Russia Challenges Biden Again With Broad Cybersurveillance Operation

SEA ISLAND, Ga. — Russia’s premier intelligence agency has launched another campaign to pierce thousands of U.S. government, corporate and think-tank computer networks, Microsoft...

Woman Charged in Submarine Secrets Case Will Stay in Custody

WASHINGTON — A federal magistrate judge ordered the continued detention of the wife of a Navy nuclear engineer on charges she participated in a...

Submarine Spy Case Involved a Babysitter and a Band-Aid Wrapper

WASHINGTON — On July 28, Diana Toebbe posted a Facebook message looking for a babysitter to take care of her children early on the...

Navy Nuclear Engineer Attempted Espionage, FBI Says

WASHINGTON — A nuclear engineer for the U.S. Navy and his wife have been charged with trying to share some of the United States’...

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