Arguing that Saudi Arabia has helped many flee the U.S. to escape prosecution, the Justice Department immediately appealed a magistrate judge’s decision Friday to release a former Twitter employee accused of helping Saudi Arabia spy on its critics.
Read moreTwo former Twitter employees face federal charges of misusing their access to users’ private data to help Saudi Arabia spy on its critics.
Read moreThe German government has acknowledged that it picked up the tab when the country’s spy agency recently took dozens of foreign agents on a trip to the Munich Oktoberfest.
Read moreTwo senior U.S. senators called for the government to study national security risks possibly posed by Chinese-owned video app TikTok, saying it could leave American users vulnerable to Beijing’s spying.
Read moreThe House of Representatives on Tuesday unanimously called on Russia to either release Paul Whelan, the U.S. citizen who for nearly 10 months has been held in Moscow on accusations of spying, or provide evidence of wrongdoing.
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The European Union has warned that next-generation telecommunication networks face a range of cyber threats, including from hostile countries.
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The Trump administration on Tuesday disputed reports of a Russian official who was recruited as a spy for the CIA and then evacuated to the United States after revealing information about the Kremlin’s interference in the 2016 election.
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An Australian academic has been arrested in China for spying, Beijing said Tuesday, prompting Canberra to demand the country uphold “basic standards” of justice.
Read moreA Moscow court has ruled to keep an American man suspected of spying in prison for two more months.
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A second U.K. police officer was exposed to a Soviet-era nerve agent used in last year’s attack on a former Russian spy in the English city Salisbury, British detectives said Thursday.
Read moreThe Iranian Intelligence Ministry announced Monday it had captured 17 Iranian citizens it believes were trained by America’s CIA. President Donald Trump took to Twitter hours later to claim the reports were false.
Read moreFederal agents descended on the suburban Maryland house with the flash and bang of a stun grenade, blocked off the street and spent hours questioning the homeowner about a theft of government documents that prosecutors would later describe as “breathtaking” in its scale.
Read moreThe U.S. embassy in Moscow said Monday that the Russian government has denied its request to let a doctor examine a former U.S. Marine being held in Russia on spying charges.
Read moreThe American Civil Liberties Union released a trove of documents on Wednesday that show the National Security Agency has improperly collected millions of private phone calls and texts from Americans since about 2015.
Read moreThe U.S. Embassy in Moscow says that it has officially protested the reported mistreatment of a U.S. national who is kept in jail on spying charges.
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An ambitious group of state-backed hackers has been burrowing into telecommunications companies in order to spy on high-profile targets across the world, a U.S. cybersecurity firm said in a report published Tuesday.
Read moreIran has agreed to hand over a U.S. permanent resident imprisoned for years in Tehran to Lebanese officials, an Iranian judiciary official said Tuesday, providing the first official confirmation that Nizar Zakka would be sent back to his native Lebanon.
Read moreA Russian court on Friday extended the arrest for a former U.S. Marine charged with espionage, who complained in court about abuse in custody.
Read moreSentenced to 18 months in prison for conspiring to act as an agent of Russia, Maria Butina filed an appeal Wednesday with the D.C. Circuit.
Read moreSpyware crafted by a sophisticated group of Israeli hackers-for-hire took advantage of a flaw in the popular WhatsApp communications program to remotely hijack dozens of phones, the company said late Monday.
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