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  • Saturday, 2 July, 2022
    News in-depthFT Investigations
    Chinese hackers kept up hiring drive despite FBI indictment

    Beijing-backed groups sought to recruit with job adverts from front companies that disguise nature of work

  • Thursday, 30 June, 2022
    Chinese politics & policy
    China lured graduate jobseekers into digital espionage

    FT investigation reveals student translators were targeted by front company for Beijing-backed hacking group APT40

  • Monday, 27 June, 2022
    Russia
    Russian espionage ‘booming’ in Switzerland, intelligence chiefs warn

    Surge in spying activity in Geneva follows expulsion of agents from neighbouring states, says report

  • Monday, 6 June, 2022
    Ardi Janjeva
    Spy agencies must realise the power of open source intelligence

    In today’s environment, governments need to get over deep-rooted preferences for ‘secret’ information

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    Tony Barber
    Beware the itch of democracies to spy on domestic critics

    A scandal in Spain is only the latest example of politicians and intelligence agencies getting up to no good

  • Wednesday, 11 May, 2022
    UK revamps espionage legislation to tackle modern threats

    Hackers planning cyber attacks and agents seeking to influence politicians to face charges under updated laws

  • Sunday, 24 April, 2022
    News in-depthUK foreign policy
    Why it took the UK a long time to become a Russia hawk

    British politicians courted Putin for years, and London only declared Moscow a ‘direct threat’ in 2021

  • Thursday, 14 April, 2022
    Wirecard AG
    German spies shunned offer to meet Wirecard fugitive Jan Marsalek in Moscow

    Intelligence service feared approach last year by middleman with suspected links to Russia’s FSB agency was a trap

  • Thursday, 7 April, 2022
    Security guard at British embassy in Berlin denies spying for Russia

    UK national faces 9 allegations as western governments step up expulsions of Russian diplomats over Ukraine invasion

  • Wednesday, 6 April, 2022
    Guard at British embassy in Berlin extradited to UK over Russia spying charges

    Move comes as Russian diplomats are expelled en masse from European capitals amid outrage at invasion of Ukraine

  • Thursday, 31 March, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Morale falling among Russian troops in Ukraine, says British military chief

    UK’s most senior officer says discontent is growing across ranks but revolt remains far off

  • Tuesday, 29 March, 2022
    FT CollectionsTech Exchange
    Kevin Mandia: We’re braced for the impact of Russian cyber attacks

    In the second of our monthly ‘Tech Exchange’ interviews, the founder of cyber security firm Mandiant warns of indiscriminate hacking of western companies and governments as the Ukraine crisis escalates

  • Sunday, 27 March, 2022
    War in Ukraine: free to read
    ‘Tip of the iceberg’: rise in Russian spying activity alarms European capitals

    Intelligence agencies have been slow to respond to the growing scope of covert Kremlin operations overseas

  • Friday, 11 February, 2022
    Edward Luce
    Biden should use cold war handbook to stop Putin’s Ukraine threat

    Jimmy Carter’s team helped secure the 1980 Soviet ‘non-invasion’ of Poland

  • Thursday, 10 February, 2022
    Australian politics
    Australia foils ‘Puppeteer’ plot to infiltrate parliament

    Spy chief says unnamed foreign power was behind plan to influence politicians standing in election

  • Tuesday, 8 February, 2022
    Marietje Schaake
    The EU must decide how to limit the use of spyware by member states

    Accusations the Polish government used NSO technology against political opponents put pressure on Brussels

  • Friday, 14 January, 2022
    Danish spying scandal escalates as former minister charged

    Ex-defence official charged with disclosing state secrets amid row over espionage

  • Friday, 14 January, 2022
    MI5 warns UK MPs against ‘political interference’ by Chinese agent

    Solicitor accused of facilitating donations to politicians and acting on behalf of China’s Communist party

  • Friday, 5 November, 2021
    US-China relations
    Chinese intelligence officer convicted of stealing GE secrets

    US justice department accuses Beijing of using espionage to modernise its industries

  • Thursday, 4 November, 2021
    Austria
    Senior Austrian defence official ‘removed over links to fugitive Wirecard executive’

    Brigadier Gustav Gustenau was until recently a top officer in the directorate for security policy within the ministry

  • Sunday, 10 October, 2021
    US Navy engineer and wife charged with selling submarine secrets

    FBI says couple thought they were sharing classified information with foreign power for cryptocurrency

  • Wednesday, 6 October, 2021
    Nato expels 8 Russians for spying

    Maximum size of Moscow delegation to Brussels headquarters halved as east-west relations deteriorate

  • Tuesday, 21 September, 2021
    Third Russian faces charges over Salisbury poisonings, say UK police

    Move by prosecutors is latest development in case that sparked crisis between London and Moscow

  • Thursday, 19 August, 2021
    US foreign policy
    US officials in Berlin struck by ‘Havana syndrome’ symptoms

    Illness first found in CIA operatives in Cuba appears to involve attacks using radiofrequency energy

  • Saturday, 14 August, 2021
    Mark Galeotti
    The Berlin spy case reminds us that real espionage is banal and human

    Technological tools cannot replicate the creativity and observation skills of people

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