The Houthis in Yemen also recently announced the possession of hypersonic missiles (probably transferred from Iran) to conduct their maritime interdiction actions in the Red Sea. The range of the Fatah hypersonic missile is compatible with the distances separating Israel from Iran. by Pasquale Preziosa Iran is successfully engaging in […]
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by Editorial Staff The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) has captured three individuals from Central Asia, accused of planning a terrorist attack in Stavropol, a city in southwestern Russia. According to what was reported by the state agency Ria Novosti, Russian authorities have confiscated materials for the manufacture of explosives and chemical substances at [...]
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The Houthis test our defenses with swarms of flying drones, underwater drones, small boats and mines
The Houthis are intensifying their attacks by testing different tactical options to discover the limits of their enemies' defenses. They therefore experimented with a "swarm" attack by launching flying drones, small boats, underwater drones and mines against the targets by Andrea Pinto The attacks in the Red Sea by the Houthi rebels against ships in transit do not stop, the [...]
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by Andrea Pinto The Germans, precisely those who were among the forerunners of cryptographic systems with the Enigma system used in WWII, committed a naivety that will cost them dearly in terms of reliability in the presence of the Allies. In essence they embarrassed the Western military and intelligence structure due to a shocking "superficiality" of their [...]
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by Editorial Staff In the absence of ammunition and new weapons to face persistent wars reminiscent of those of the Great War, the United States is running for cover by looking to Australia. The NYT reveals the US army's plans. Australia is preparing to produce a considerable quantity of artillery shells and thousands of guided missiles, in close collaboration with companies [...]
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Our intelligence report also sees climate change among the new challenges, as a contributing cause of crises and threats due to its impact on geopolitics, food, water, economic and social security. All factors that can equally fuel the proliferation of terrorism. by Andrea Pinto Yesterday the Italian security services met [...]
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Italy, France and the European Union should dialogue to set up a common strategy to be implemented in Libya, as there are vital interests at stake in the energy field thanks to an important ten-year presence of Eni and Total in the field of hydrocarbon research by Massimiliano D'Elia Tehran is looking to expand its commercial networks in […]
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by Francesco Matera The Head of the Intelligence Committee of the United States House, the Republican Mike Turner yesterday came out into the open, warning American politics and consequently the entire Western world that the Russian threat also and above all comes from space, identifying it as a " serious threat to national security." Turner also […]
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by Editorial Staff France has presented a written proposal to Beirut with the aim of resolving hostilities with Tel Aviv and addressing the existing dispute on the Lebanon-Israel border. The document, obtained by Reuters, outlines measures for de-escalation, including the withdrawal of fighters, in particular Hezbollah's elite unit, to a distance of 10 [...]
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by Editorial Staff The Yemeni Houthi rebels raise their sights and after having targeted the ships transiting the Red Sea, crossing the Suez Canal and the Strait of Bab el Mandeb, they are now aiming at the submarine communications cables which, precisely from that stretch of sea, connect entire countries and continents. The interruption […]
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by Andrea Pinto The situation in the Middle East continues to heat up. The attack on the American base in Jordan which cost the lives of three soldiers forced President Joe Biden to raise the level of tension, announcing a prompt response towards the perpetrators and, above all, the instigators. Iran, according to intelligence reports, is the [...]
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by Editorial Staff The Taiwanese government has expressed outrage after China unilaterally changed the routes of flights crossing an airway, near the sensitive median line in the Taiwan Strait. The change, according to Taiwan, is a deliberate act aimed at altering the status quo, for military purposes only. The Civil Aviation Administration of China […]
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by Francesco Matera Yemen's Houthi rebels continue to threaten the Red Sea through their attacks against foreign cargo ships, winking at Russian and Chinese companies. Last Friday, a US destroyer, the USS Carney, shot down a ballistic missile fired from an area of Yemen controlled by the Houthis, the Pentagon said, [...]
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Mossad chief David Barnea arrived in Paris today to participate in separate meetings with delegations from the United States, Qatar and Egypt to discuss a possible deal to release hostages in Gaza. Confirmation from three sources cited by Haaretz. Among the participants in the meetings are the director of [...]
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by Editorial Staff Yesterday North Korea, through the state agency KNCA, announced that it had successfully tested a new strategic cruise missile called "Pulhwasal-3-31". The test confirms the rumors disclosed by the South Korean armed forces the other day. The missile, still under development, was launched with the aim of evaluating its performance. […]
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by Editorial Staff Last Sunday, with a sixteen-page document in English and Arabic, Hamas on its telegram channel, in the name of Allah, explains the reasons that led to the attack of 7 October. The message, with a higher emotional impact, which seeks to justify the barbarism perpetrated clarifies that "No massacre, rape or decapitation of [...]
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by Editorial Staff With the United States still having to unblock the military aid package in Congress and with the West which, more generally, has shown some weakness in continuing to support Ukraine, it is necessary, as far as possible, to take action. Even if the initiative will not significantly change the progress of the war which has been stuck for months, however [...]
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Listen to “The role of the CIA against Hamas in support of Israel” on Spreaker. by Editorial Staff The CIA intervened decisively, taking a position directly against Hamas shortly after the October 7 attack. According to what was reported by the New York Times, the United States intelligence agency has set up a task force to collect information on [...]
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by Editorial Staff Russia is intensifying its operational action in the war with Ukraine during 2024, as announced by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. Although the conflict has been going on for over two years, with the Eastern Front as the main theater of operations, the situation still seems to be stuck. However, Moscow has outlined a [...]
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by Editorial Staff Kiev's attacks against Russian territory are also extending into the cyber dimension, directly hitting Moscow, also implementing missile and drone raids in the border regions. Ukrainian sources report that a group of hackers from Kiev, probably with intelligence support, hacked the internet provider 'M9com', causing the [...]
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LISTEN to “Beirut airport screens hacked with messages against Hezbollah” on Spreaker. by Editorial Staff Yesterday, information display screens at Beirut International Airport were hacked by domestic anti-Hezbollah hacker groups, as clashes between the Lebanese group, supported and financed by Iran, and the Israeli army continue to intensify along the border. […]
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LISTEN to “Iran all-out against the axis of evil: a new warship with 100 missile launchers launched” on Spreaker. After the attacks in the city of Kerman, Raisi thundered against Israel and the United States for "creating the Caliphate", promising that the "Al Aqsa Flood" operation will necessarily lead to the destruction of the Zionist state. Iran, […]
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by Editorial Staff No new mobilization, Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree regarding the assignment of citizenship to foreigners who sign a contract to serve in the Armed Forces. Next March's elections give Putin no other choice. This measure adds to the previous pardon granted to prisoners sent to the front, highlighting the commitment [...]
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by Andrea Pinto Russia has launched a massive attack in Ukraine, firing 120 missiles, 36 Shahed-class drones, unmarked devices and sending at least 20 strategic bombers into the air. The targets included civilian buildings and strategic locations: there were numerous victims and damage. The Ukrainian response was immediate with 70 [...]
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by Editorial Staff 2024 sees a highly unstable international situation from one side of the globe to the other with important electoral appointments that will affect the European Union, Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Pakistan, Russia, the United States, Taiwan and 18 countries 'Africa. Let us therefore retrace the major crises-wars (there are 59 to date) that keep the world's chancelleries in suspense [...]
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by Editorial Staff The Iranian navy has been equipped with cruise missiles with a range of 1.000 km and reconnaissance helicopters. The news was released by state media last night. The Iranian military supply following the accusations made against Tehran by the United States on the attack with a drone on a chemical tanker [...]
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by Andrea Pinto A few hours ago the Minister of Defense of Taiwan reported to the media that, yesterday, two alleged Chinese sounding balloons crossed the Taiwan Strait, remaining well north of the island. It is the second time this month that Taipei has reported the presence of such objects in the vicinity of national airspace. The […]
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After the killing of three hostages due to a sensational mistake, the Israeli military continues to prepare the plan to flood the underground tunnels that run for 500 kilometers throughout Gaza. The flooding will also lead to the death of over one hundred hostages still hidden among those tunnels. Israeli public opinion is shocked by the accidental killing of the three hostages by [...]
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Twenty-eight thousand sensitive targets in Italy, the terrorism alert remains very high, this is the message from the Minister of the Interior Matteo Piantedosi at yesterday's question time in the Chamber on the initiatives implemented to counter the risk of Islamic terrorist attacks and infiltrations in our Village. The international context, which the minister defined as difficult, is [...]
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by Editorial Staff The Israeli army, during the offensive south of Gaza, intensified the so-called psyops (psychological warfare) operations. A few days ago the IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) announced the death of Wissam Farhat, commander of the Shujaiya Battalion. Images of the faces of the Battalion officers were then disseminated as they sent messages of surrender. A second […]
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by Editorial Staff yesterday the news of the alleged poisoning of the head of Ukrainian military intelligence, Kirilo Budanov, and his wife Marianna, apparently hit "with heavy metals. Ukraine's Defense Ministry said such substances are not commonly used in daily life or military affairs, suggesting possible intentional poisoning. Ukrainian officials have indicated [...]
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US concerns are growing over the UAE's G42 company and its ties to China. The aspects of greatest concern include the possibility of transfers of sensitive technology to the Chinese and the concern that the genetic data of millions of individuals could end up in the hands of the Beijing government. The […]
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by Editorial Staff In the last two months, Moscow has activated a network of Russian sleeper agents in Ukraine, according to Oleksiy Danilov, Ukrainian national security advisor. The goal is to destabilize the country, as the military conflict is at a standstill. The undercover agents were ordered to undermine Ukraine's unity by exploiting internal tensions. Despite the unity […]
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by Editorial Staff Last October, Russian and Chinese company executives met secretly to discuss the possibility of building an undersea tunnel connecting Russia to Crimea. This underwater communication line would allow the transport of goods to Crimea, offering a route safe from Ukrainian attacks. The news emerged [...]
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by Editorial Staff Yesterday US military forces were attacked four times in Iraq and Syria with rockets and armed drones. One of the military spokesmen told Reuters that the attacks caused no casualties or damage to infrastructure. The official said that US and international forces were attacked in [...]
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by Pasquale Preziosa The Telegraph in an article by Blake Herzinger, USSC researcher in foreign policy and defense, reported that Chinese scientists, in a war simulation against the United States, stated that China's hypersonic weapons could destroy the new aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford. In the simulation the Chinese have […]
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by Editorial Staff The highest Iranian diplomat, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, revealed to the FT that Tehran had warned the United States that it did not want a regional expansion of the war between Israel and Hamas, however he also warned Washington that the regional conflict could be inevitable, where Israel continues with indiscriminate attacks [...]
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by Massimiliano D'Elia As part of the Apec (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) summit on November 15th the Biden-Xi Jinping meeting will take place, good news in a period of war in the middle of Europe and in Middle East. The two leaders of the strongest economies on Earth will sit at a table to talk about multiple issues dividing [...]
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by Massimiliano D'Elia Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told ABC news yesterday that Israel will consider "small tactical pauses" in the fighting to facilitate the entry of aid or the exit of hostages from the Gaza Strip. He remains firm on his decision not to grant a ceasefire, despite international pressure. After surrounding […]
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by Massimiliano D'Elia The summit called for last week by English Prime Minister Sunak in Great Britain on AI (Artificial Intelligence) saw the participation of the world's largest Hi-Tech companies and most of the world leaders. At the end of the summit, the companies committed, through a declaration of intent, to recognize the role of governments [...]
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The office of the diplomatic advisor to the Prime Minister, Francesco Talò, in an official statement expresses its regret "for the deception received from an impostor who passed himself off as the president of the African Union Commission". The phone call arrived on 18 September, as part of Giorgia Meloni's contacts, on the occasion of the meeting of the General Assembly of [...]
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Basem Naim, a doctor who studied in Germany, former Minister of Health of Gaza and today coordinator of logistics and ambassador abroad for Hamas, was interviewed by the Agorà program on Rai 3. In reference to the Italian position on the Israeli-Palestinian issue, he launched a warning: "It is a very serious mistake that transforms Italy into one of [...]
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For Prime Minister Netanyahu “it is the moment of truth: win or cease to exist. The war inside Gaza will be hard and long, it will be our second War of Independence. We want to give back to the murderers what they did." by Massimiliano D'Elia Not a raze-style land invasion of everything and everyone, but surgical operations, targeted and […]
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(by Francesco Matera) The massacre of 7 October last, carried out by Hamas near the Gaza Strip, with an incursion of over a thousand militiamen, shocked not only world public opinion due to the cruelty of the scenes of murdered deaths, expertly published online by terrorists, but also the international Intelligence Community because it is not [...]
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The Islamic State had only two years to prepare the defenses in Mosul, Hamas had 15 years to prepare a dense defense in depth that includes underground and surface. Fortifications, communication tunnels, combat posts and positions, minefields, improvised explosive devices, explosive penetration mines and explosive traps of […]
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Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi, speaking on Radio Uno, raised the alarm about the so-called "lone wolves", in reference to the resurgence of terrorism phenomena, following tensions in the Middle East. The minister also wanted to clarify that, even if there is no real organization in Italy, the danger could come "from subjects [...]
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American media such as CNN and NYT wrote that Biden had been warned weeks before the attack of a resurgence of tensions in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A September 28 report warned that the Hamas terrorist group was ready to intensify missile attacks along the border. Another document from 5 […]
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According to a source from the French newspaper Figaro, the Egyptian secret services warned their Israeli colleagues several times that Hamas was preparing something very important. Unfortunately, the Tel Aviv 007s underestimated the important information, according to a former French 007 who knows the Egyptian services in depth. Sources near the Prime Minister's office […]
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A statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has been circulating on social media platforms, saying the interim Taliban government in Kabul has asked neighboring countries for safe passage to Jerusalem to fight against the Israeli army. The statement circulated in Urdu and English and appeared on many […]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Asymmetric war carried out with rudimentary means but which executed a strategy studied down to the smallest detail, perhaps even with the external help of well-trained state elements. There are many hypotheses about the success of Hamas' military initiative on Israeli territory but almost all of them lead to alleged help from Tehran and perhaps also [...]
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The war continues. Ukraine announces its own weapons production while Putin enlists Cuban volunteers
(by Andrea Pinto) Vladimir Putin on the day of the celebrations for the annexation of the former People's Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk and the regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, through the Tass agency, congratulated the residents on this "truly decisive" annual anniversary , historic and fateful." Ukrainian President Zelensky, in response, participated in the International Forum [...]
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(by Francesco Matera) If anyone was thinking of negotiations started with Moscow to end the war in Ukraine, unfortunately, the evidence shows the opposite. According to a Bloomberg analysis, Moscow intends to increase military spending to 2024 percent of its GDP during 6. The defense budget would thus jump from 67 billion dollars per year to 112 billion.
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Millions of Russians yesterday received a notification from the country's main government portal inviting them to download an app to report security incidents with a focus on drone attacks. The warning in the notification reads: "Contribute to the fight against drones! The Radar app can be used to report suspicious drones or other terrorist emergencies." The news was reported by WP.
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Ukraine's military forces said they attacked two Russian patrol ships operating in the Black Sea and destroyed the sophisticated S-400 "Triumf" surface-to-air missile defense system in Russian-occupied Crimea. Some military analysts have described the loss of such equipment as "tactical failures" on Russia's part.
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The German newspaper DIE Welt has revealed a delicate issue concerning the probable supply of Russian gas to EU countries through a Turkish company that supplies Bulgaria thanks to a 13-year contract, even though the EU has declared that it wants to be totally independent from Moscow gas starting from 2027.
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Following the lessons learned from the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, where we saw the massive use of drones, the Western armed forces are trying to take action by studying new types of weapon systems in the UAV sector, as well as suitable defence. With this in mind, the Pentagon has decided to deliver, over the next two years, a large number [...]
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The size of the Indian telecom market has grown exponentially in recent years. The country's economic survey last year revealed that wireless data usage rose from an average of 1,24GB per person per month in 2018 to over 14GB in 2022.
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Vladimir Putin personally intervened on the accident/sabotage of Prigozhin's private plane: "I offer my sincere condolences to the families of all those killed in the plane catastrophe ... Preliminary data say that on board managers of the Wagner company were located… I had known Prigozhin for a long time, since the beginning of the nineties. He was a […]
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Yesterday the private plane of Evgenij Prigozhin, founder and head of the private military company Wagner, crashed 300 kilometers from Moscow and less than 50 from Putin's residence in Valdaj. We may never know the causes, it is certain that it was not an accident. Rosaviatsiya, the federal agency that regulates the […]
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(by Andrea Pinto) The anticipation of the Foglio on the alleged reform of our secret services was also discussed today by Il Giornale. The current information system for the security of the Republic was established with Law 124/2007, which had already reformed the national intelligence sector at the time (Prodi Government). Today in Italy operational intelligence is entrusted [...]
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The Ukrainian counter-offensive is proving to be less effective than Kiev had hoped for and Ukraine must accept the fact that it will fail to achieve the main objectives it has set itself. This is supported by US intelligence according to which it is practically impossible for the Ukrainian army to be able to reach the city of Melitopol occupied by the [...]
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The Chinese Ministry of State Security has revealed the name of the spy recruited by the CIA in Rome. This is a certain Zeng, born in July 1971 who worked for a military industrial group and had access to important classified information. Without ever naming the company, the Beijing authorities only said [...]
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Niger: the US talks to the coup plotters for peace and France with Ecowas for war
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In an anti-China function, the US will use the CL-20 to increase the range of weapons in the Pacific
The Americans are studying how to modify the mix of chemicals that fuel missiles and rockets to increase the range of munitions in order to gain a tactical advantage in the Pacific. A solution to be able to operate safely and further away from China. The Pentagon and Congress are studying a retrofit that could extend [...]
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Chinese leader Xi Jinping has replaced two generals who commanded the country's missile forces, thus starting the most important purge within the army's top ranks. General Li Yuchao, commander of the People's Liberation Army's Rocket Force, and his deputy, General Liu Guangbin, had already disappeared from circulation several [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) According to a military analyst and former Russian officer, Andrey Kartapolov, Russia wants to use its private militias to invade countries considered the "weakest links" of NATO. According to the former officer, the Wagner company could be used to conquer an area known as the Suwalki Corridor, a strip of land of 65 km [...]
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In order to avoid isolation from the West, Iran joined the SCO – Shanghai Cooperation Organization – on 4 July last in India, thus becoming the ninth effective member on a par with India, China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Pakistan. Until last July 4, Iran was invited to the various meetings of the SCO only as [...]
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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Putin invited at least 29 people to the Kremlin on June 35, including Prigozhin and the commanders of the battalions of the private military group. The meeting lasted almost three hours. After the march on Moscow Putin had labeled Progozhin a "traitor" now the admission of the meeting of [...]
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Russia's covert drone partnership with Iran has affected a Russian factory in Tatarstan's Alabugadel Special Economic Zone, the Albatross. The company, known for producing unmanned aircraft for agriculture, has been converted into a war industry to continue supplying the war effort in Ukraine. To break the news […]
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Confirmation from the president of Belarus Lukashenko: "The fighters of the Wagner group are in their camps, their permanent camps, the ones where they have been since they left the front". Prigozhin, Lukashenko added yesterday, is not in the territory of Belarus but he is in St. Petersburg and perhaps this morning he went to Moscow. The news […]
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China continues to arm itself with high-quality and highly deterrent systems as the interference of the West increases in the Indo-Pacific, which does not want to give in to Beijing's ambitions on the island of Taiwan. From the largest aircraft carrier in the world, the Liaoning class, presented a few months ago to long-range missiles capable of hitting [...]
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The alarm was raised by US intelligence to American firms that supplied Iran with technological components which were then used to build the fearsome Shahed drones used by Russia in the war against Ukraine. However, Iran does not only receive its supplies from Western countries, through anonymous civilian companies, but also from China, India and South Africa. A trade in components […]
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Senior representatives from more than twenty intelligence agencies from around the world, including the United States and China, attended a secret meeting in Singapore last week. The meeting would have taken place on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue, a security conference held every year in Singapore. The conference, focused on the issues […]
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The launch of a North Korean satellite has failed: the booster and the cargo crashed into the sea. South Korea's military has reportedly recovered parts of the launch vehicle from the high seas. The North Korean state news agency - KCNA - reported that the rocket for the launch of the spy satellite [...]
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In Belgorod there is still fighting. One of the leaders of the pro-Russian militiamen belonging to the Legion Freedom to Russia, Denis Kapustin said yesterday at a press conference: "Our fight continues, we will reach Moscow, wait for us". After Monday's battle, the Russian Defense Ministry said it had rejected the incursion, liquidated 70 Ukrainian terrorists and [...]
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Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner mercenaries would have wanted to reveal the location of the Russian troops to the Ukrainian government. The news was reported yesterday by the WP, according to a leak of some US intelligence documents. Wagner's soldiers were at the forefront of the bloody Russian offensive to take the city [...]
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The island of Christiansö in the Baltic Sea is the Danish outpost in front of the Nordstream 2 gas pipeline, which made world news due to a sabotage that took place on 26 September last. The Danish police are examining several hypotheses. Meanwhile, off Christiansö, a boat specializing in underwater exploration continues to collect clues, escorted by a navy ship [...]
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The DGSI, the counterintelligence of Paris, has raised the alarm on the activity of Russian intelligence, signaling the danger of acquaintances with politicians and associations that could hide secret agents of Moscow undercover. The 007s, in the pay of the Kremlin, do not only seek secret documents but try to exercise their influence to confuse and direct political, economic choices [...]
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(by Francesco Matera) How controversial the world is. While on the one hand we supply weapons and intelligence to fight the private Wagner company in Ukraine, notoriously under orders from Moscow, on the other hand we negotiate in Sudan with the RSF paramilitary group for the safe evacuation of our compatriots. What's wrong? Nothing, just the fact that the RSF receives […]
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How to render the Starlink satellite network harmless in order to interrupt communications between soldiers in Ukraine? Simple, use a sophisticated system that prevents sending data and images to the earth. Thus Moscow is allegedly experimenting with an innovative weapon system, called Tobol. This was revealed by the WP after viewing a secret US intelligence report. The […]
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Accused of violating the espionage law, he faces up to 15 years in prison. The suspect is Jack Teixeira, the soldier of the American National Guard with access to classified information, suspected of having disseminated documents and images online, embarrassing the American intelligence apparatus. Enlisted in 2019, he worked as an IT specialist and [...]
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The person responsible for the leak of hundreds of classified Pentagon documents may be a young racist gun enthusiast who worked at a military base and was trying to impress an Internet chat group with his revelations. The Washington Post interviewed a teenage member of the group, who described the man, denoted by […]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Online video game platforms, role exchange, exciting challenges that keep you attached to a screen until you lose touch with physical reality. The emotions and involvement are so strong as to make you identify with the character, in your skin that you have created by "paying" hundreds of euros to shape it […]
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A Russian fighter nearly shot down a British plane last year off the coast of Crimea. According to some US military documents released by the Washington Post, the incident of 29 September could have dragged the United States and NATO allies directly into war against Russia. The document released by the American newspaper makes [...]
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The number two of the Press Office of the Pentagno Sabrina Singh thus commented in a note on the story of the dissemination of high-ranking documents and images via social networks and the interagency efforts to unwind the knot of the tangled skein: "The Department of Defense continues to examine and evaluate the validity of the photographed documents […]
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A secret dossier has ended up on the net, a classified document summarizing the American and NATO commitment to the war in Ukraine. A lightness in the American control systems or the will to divulge what you want the enemy to know in order to confuse him? The fact is that the dossier speaks of about 100 soldiers [...]
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Classified war documents detailing secret US and NATO plans to bolster Ukraine's military ahead of an offensive against Russia were posted on social media this week. The New York Times reports it, citing senior officials of the Biden administration. The Pentagon is investigating to find out who may be behind the spread [...]
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A former Russian security officer who defected last year told The Guardian about Vladimir Putin's paranoid lifestyle, confirming details of a network of secret trains, identical offices in different cities and a rigorous personal quarantine, followed by a capillary and sectoral security protocol. Gleb Karakulov, […]
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The Russian news agency Tass reported the killing of Russian nationalist blogger and war correspondent Vladlen Tatarsky. He was the victim of an attack in a coffee bar in St. Petersburg. The violent explosion was caused by 200 grams of TNT, hidden in a statuette depicting the blog, causing one dead and 30 injured, [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Last Wednesday, Il Foglio wrote that our intelligence had raised the alarm of a 15 million dollar bounty on the head of our defense minister, Guido Crosetto. News that interested the world press and beyond for a couple of days. The day after Alfredo Mantovano, undersecretary with responsibility for [...]
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(by Francesco Matera) Italy has sided with Ukraine without ifs and buts, as witnessed by the recent trip of the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to Kiev. Days ago the Minister of Defense, Guido Crosetto and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antonio Tajani leaked the news that the Russian Wagner brigade from Libya [...]
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The head of Lithuanian military intelligence said Russia has enough resources to continue the war in Ukraine for another two years at the current intensity. "The resources that Russia has right now would be enough to continue the war at the current intensity for two years," Lithuanian intelligence chief Elegijus Paulavicius told reporters. […]
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The Chinese military is closely watching the warfare techniques used in the Ukraine conflict to enhance its capabilities in possible future conflicts with the United States. The objective of military research is to be able to shoot down the starlink satellites in low orbit in order to be able to defend tanks and helicopters from the deadly Javelin missiles [...]
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A strong explosion was heard in Kolomna, a city in Russia in the Moscow region 113 km southeast of the capital. The first images have started appearing on social media.
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Discovered one million euro "suspicious" paid since the beginning of the war in the coffers of the Russian Embassy in Italy. Movements of money for "humint" activities of Moscow's 007s? (by Francesco Matera) The Russian ambassador in Italy Razov has tried everything in an attempt to make Russian rhetoric permeate the Bel Paese. He met former parliamentarians and denounced [...]
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Nicastri: a program to implement digital skills is ready "The hacker attack claimed by the NoName057 collective, which in the last few hours has hit various institutional and corporate sites in our nation, represents a sign, yet another of how much the issue of cybersecurity has become priority for all of us. The timing of the pro-Russian group's offensive - underlines in a [...]
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BBC Persian has reported that the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced that Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will visit China today, at the official invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping. The visit will last three days. Iran and China have strong economic ties, especially in the fields of energy, transport, agriculture, trade and […]
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According to reports from the Pentagon yesterday US military fighters shot down an octagonal object over Lake Huron. After the Chinese balloon, it was the third flying object to be shot down over North America by a US missile in just over a week. The news was beaten by Reuters. The general […]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The Washington Post has revealed the American moves "under the table" to try to turn the Ukrainian conflict around. Under consideration by Congress the use of the "1202 Program" which provides for the use of US special forces directly on the ground to assist the Ukrainians in raids and in counter-information, or to lead the Kiev military from [...]
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The Pentagon has announced that in recent years at least 40 Chinese balloons have flown over different parts of the world far and wide, including Italy. Yes, precisely our country where there is the highest concentration of high NATO and American military technology scattered from north to south in the various military bases. From […]
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The very high altitude, identified between 20 km and 100 km, is the domain for hypersonic missiles that ricochet off the layers of the atmosphere, drones and stratospheric aircraft, such as the American U-2 spy plane, or even air balloons such as the one of Chinese origin identified last Thursday over American airspace. The very high altitude is difficult to control […]
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The Pentagon is tracking and monitoring a Chinese reconnaissance balloon over the continental United States. The news was reported by the media following information received from the Pentagon. Pentagon spokesman, Pat Ryder, reported that the US "has detected and is monitoring a high-altitude surveillance balloon that [...]
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A governor, the head of Siberia's Transbaikal region has promised to pay hefty rewards for the destruction of the feared German-made European Leopard 2 tank and the American M-1 Abrams. Following this, a Russian company also offered a reward for what many call "The Great Game". Vladimir Putin's spokesman, [...]
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Maurizio Molinari in La Repubblica launched the proposal, indeed the need to have a "National Security Council", like France, Germany, Great Britain and the USA. The current geopolitical situation requires quick responses. The proposal was implemented by the chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs and Defense Commission, Stefania Craxi who put the [...]
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The Wall Street Journal has revealed that Israel was behind a drone attack on Iran's defense complex. This was reported to the newspaper, on condition of anonymity, by senior executives of the Biden administration. The blitz hit a munitions factory in the city of Isfahan, right next to a site belonging to Iran Space Research [...]
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The anarchist-insurrectionist movement in Italy (Fai) has reawakened, even if it has not many followers, however it causes concern to the police forces and to our intelligence for the acts of violence that they manage to carry out. The story that reactivated the flame in them is that of Alfredo Cospito. An anarchist-insurrectionist, convicted of [...]
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Italy is at Ukraine's side by sending Israeli weapons, ammunition, drones and intelligence resources. (by Francesco Matera) Rome has decided to send a unit of the Samp-T surface-to-air system to Kiev equipped with about twenty missiles (the others will be supplied by the French), together with pieces of heavy artillery, movement tanks and groups generators. Second […]
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A Russian navy exercise off the coast of South Africa highlights to the international community Pretoria's refusal to condemn the invasion of Ukraine. Two Russian warships are expected in Durban next February for a nine-day exercise that will also include Chinese naval units. President Ramaphosa's government does not support sanctions [...]
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Next February, the United States has called a summit in Washington to discuss the Libya dossier in the presence of representatives of Italy, France, England and Germany. American attention to the North African country is maximum at the moment. Last week, the number one of the CIA William Burns went to Libya to warn the [...]
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Thousands of planes grounded in America. The Notice to Air Mission - NOTAM - system went haywire for just under half an hour and it is the second time this has happened within a few days. Biden considered the hypothesis of a hacker attack asking the Secretary of Transportation Buttigieg to conduct a [...]
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An international mix of spies, arms dealers and local underworld. It is not the scene of a 007 film but it is what happened on the outskirts of Rome. Repubblica tells of a secret meeting in Formello between foreign spies and drug traffickers. Russians and Iranians negotiate a consignment of rifles to be sent to [...]
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The alarm comes from the United States, the FBI warned last November that TikTok poses a risk to national security. The American administration would have contacted the Chinese global company to implement the controls in order not to have to block the application without any distinction. Meanwhile, on December 29, Biden signed an act for [...]
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Ukrainian military intelligence says that Russia is ready to order the mobilization of as many as 500.000 conscripts in January, in addition to the 300.000 already called up last October, thus sending a signal: Putin has no intention of ending the war. Vadym Skibitsky, deputy head of Ukrainian military intelligence, told The Guardian that the conscripts [...]
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Using a cell phone can cost you your life. It's not a paradox, but when you're at war, sending a single message over the data network can give the enemy your exact location on the battlefield leaving you vulnerable. The United States and its allies have watched with some concern [...]
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Google is developing a free moderator for smaller websites that they can use to identify and remove terrorist material. A response to new legislation in the UK and the European Union forcing internet companies to do more to tackle illegal content. The software was developed in collaboration […]
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The CEO of one of the major European insurers has warned that cyber attacks, such as natural disasters, can no longer be insured, in view of the uncontrolled increase in the malicious activities of hackers. In recent years, insurance industry executives have sounded the alarm about systemic risks, such as pandemics and climate change, which put […]
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On December 25, one of three Russian Mikoyan MiG-31K aircraft stationed at Machulichy airport in Belarus caught fire and was unusable. The news was given by a monitoring group called "Belarusian Gayun". MiG-31Ks are capable of carrying Kh-47M2 Kinzhal hypersonic missiles, which are impossible to intercept. The danger […]
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The White House has accused North Korea of arming the Russian private military company Wagner Group, which has deployed its mercenaries in Ukraine. John Kirby, US national security adviser, told the FT that North Korean deliveries - rockets and missiles - began last November but [...]
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China will soon threaten the security of the West in the Atlantic, the head of the armed forces of the United Kingdom said during the annual conference at the Royal United Service Institute. The senior officer suggested that it might be necessary to send a British aircraft carrier to East Asia on a stable basis. Admiral Tony Radakin, chief of staff of the British Defense, has [...]
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(by Francesco Matera) The International Legion fights in Ukraine and can count on funding and armaments from the regular army of Kiev. The paramilitaries come from around 52 countries and are mostly of British origin. Their pay varies from 1200 euros to just over 2500 euros. Very interesting is the report […]
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Rita Cavallaro on l'Identità takes us inside the secret rooms of Palazzo Chigi where the premier Giorgia Meloni, a few hours ago, would have met the current head of Dis, Elisabetta Belloni to discuss appointments, the more delicate ones, those to which it will be necessary to entrust our secret services, Aisi, Aise and Dis himself. In the face of the appointment, as [...]
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Tehran's secret services are reportedly targeting Iranians abroad more, especially journalists and dissidents. According to Western analysts, a strong response is underway to the popular uprising that is escalating in Iran, triggered by the brutal death of the young woman, Mahsa Amini, who would have been killed in police custody [...]
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The United States and NATO will have to provide Farsi language analysts and teach Farsi to Ukrainian intelligence analysts. This will allow Ukrainian intelligence analysts to better identify Iranian military advisors present in Crimea and possibly capture them. (by Massimiliano D'Elia) Tehran has sent its consultants to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in [...]
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The Dutch government has accused China of running "illegal" unlicensed police offices in the Netherlands. The facilities were allegedly used to pressure Chinese citizens in the country. The Dutch broadcaster RTL News reported yesterday that the "administrative" offices in Amsterdam and Rotterdam, set up to help Chinese citizens obtain [...]
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According to reports from the Financial Times, the head of German cyber security headed by the Ministry of the Interior was removed yesterday from his functions with immediate effect by Minister Nancy Faeser. The decision after the German media spread the news of the unfortunate coincidence. The links have not yet been clarified to the investigators [...]
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Two ballistic missiles, the Dongfeng41 and the Dongfeng-17, the most advanced in China, are currently on display to the public on the artificial grass area that gives access to the Beijing Exhibition Center, a Soviet-style mega complex with three giant rooms that these days are immersed in hundreds of [...]
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Floriana Bulfon talks about it on Repubblica, the alarm was triggered, according to a NATO intelligence report, following the movements of the Belgorod nuclear submarine, which became operational last July. He would return to dive in the Arctic seas and it is feared that his mission is to test for the first time ever the super torpedo Poseidon, defined [...]
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The Baltic Pipe, the new gas pipeline that will connect Norway, Denmark and Poland, was inaugurated on 27 September. The project started in 2013 and cost 267 million euros. It is a strategic infrastructure that connects to another gas pipeline, Europipe II, which extracts natural gas from the [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia and Giuseppe Paccione) The Atlantic Council of NATO this morning released a statement highlighting that the accident in the Baltic took place in international waters, where there is no national jurisdiction: "Damage to the Nordstream 1 gas pipelines and Nordstream 2 in the international waters of the Baltic Sea are of deep concern. All the […]
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In Lugansk and Donetsk, in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia until Monday you can vote for the referendum on the annexation to Russia wanted by Putin, indeed you have to vote because it is the soldiers who, with guns drawn, look for citizens house by house. : there are no seats, you vote on the street, in the gardens and [...]
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In the Aid bis law decree, just approved in the Senate, an amendment, proposed by the FdI senator Adolfo Urso, provides greater operational autonomy to our 007s who operate abroad undercover, in information research activities. Who deals with the security of the Republic abroad is the Aise - information and external security agency - which until the exit [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Tomorrow morning, Undersecretary for Services, Franco Gabrielli will report to Copasir on the story of the alleged Russian funding to political parties and leaders of about 20 foreign countries. The alarm was raised by the 007 in Washington on the 'soft power' exercised by Moscow, secretly transferring from 2014, the year of the occupation of Crimea, over 300 million [...]
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The Pentagon, in an anti-China function, and with the approval of Congress has launched a wide-ranging campaign to supply the military arsenals of the allied countries that have supported Ukraine. The Pentagon last month created a task force (tiger team) made up of senior officials from various Departments in order to speed up sales [...]
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The clashes in Tripoli in recent days have involved militias close to the government of Abdul Hamid Ddeibah, recognized by the UN, and those close to Fathi Bashaga, premier recognized by the parliament based in Tobruck, particularly close to Russia. The first ones prevailed, with Ddeibah who also granted himself, as a sign of strength, a [...]
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In 2019, in the course of investigating the Skripal poisoning, the investigative journal Bellingcat obtained metadata from the call logs of Maj. General Andrey Averyanov. These records, spanning the period from mid-2017 to late 2019, shed light on a vast spy network run by Russian military intelligence. The data of [...]
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The lines written on an article in the investigative newspaper Bellingcat reveal some rumors about the modus operandi of the Gru (one of the Russian intelligence services), in creating a new identity for their operative agents from nothing. On August 8, 2005, the Civil Registry Office of the Independencia District in Lima, Peru received an application for registration […]
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In Russia there are three intelligence agencies, the FSB, the internal counter-intelligence service, the SVR, the foreign service and, indeed, the Gru, the military secret service. Unlike FSB and SVR which depend on the presidency of the Russian Federation, the Crane which has been operating since the times of the Soviet Union is headed by the Ministry of Defense and [...]
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The United States tested a long-range nuclear-capable missile, a show of strength against China and Russia. The Air Force Global Strike Command launched the disarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) two days ago from the Californian base of the Vandenberg Space Force. He was headed for the Pacific. "Our triad [...]
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An independent investigation found that hundreds of electronic components in Russian weapons come from Western industries. The weapons the Russians use to bomb Ukraine need a guidance system, RAM and more to achieve their goal. It is estimated that Russia has so far fired more than [...]
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Hundreds of Iranian drones will be given to Moscow in exchange for Russian Su-35 fighter aircraft. (by Massimiliano D'Elia) Military cooperation between Russia and Iran is increasingly evident. After the launch of the Iranian satellite via a Russian rocket, Iran has begun to train Russian pilots in the use of its drones which will then be sold to the army [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Yesterday a Russian rocket launched an Iranian surveillance satellite into orbit which, according to Western analysts, will improve Iran's intelligence gathering. Therefore, the announced ever closer collaboration between Russia and Iran is growing. After the invasion of Ukraine and the imposition of Western sanctions, Russia tried to forge agreements and collaborations [...]
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The weapon of migrants is used against Italy and Europe from the coasts of Libya under the control of the militias of General Haftar, who is supported by at least two thousand mercenaries of the Wagner Group linked to Russia. To write it is "La Repubblica", which cites sources of the Italian security services explaining: "Libya is a cannon aimed at [...]
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(by Lorenzo Midili) Cyberwar, also called cyberwarfare, is a war directed by computers, by states or their operators against other states. Known as "cyber warfare," it is usually waged against government and military networks in order to disrupt, destroy or even deny its use. Cyber warfare, often identified as espionage or crime [...]
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A real war between spies in the pay of Kiev and Moscow. The Kremlin said that Ukraine tried to bribe pilots of Russian fighter aircraft: the secret proposal was to fly the pilots to the Ukrainian territories and then surrender and deliver their precious machines. In exchange there would be [...]
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Iran announced last Friday that its military ships have loaded armed drones, thus posing a new threat to American and allied ships transiting the Persian Gulf. The news while US President Joe Biden was visiting the Middle East to reinvigorate some anti-Tehran alliances. The TV of [...]
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Some Chinese college students work in a secret technology society that has masked the true nature of the business from them: to seek out Western espionage targets and translate hacked documents. The Financial Times identified and contacted 140 potential translators, mostly recent graduates who studied English at public universities in Hainan, Sichuan and Xi'an. [...]
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The United States called a secret meeting of senior military officials from Israel and Arab countries last March to explore how they could coordinate against Iran's missile growth and possible drone capabilities in the region. The news was reported by the Washington Post. The interviews, never disclosed before, were [...]
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Democratic and Republican lawmakers are pushing the White House to fund the Indo-Pacific region with more money to counter China. The news is reported in the Financial Times. Ami Bera, Democratic Chair of the House's Subcommittee on Foreign Affairs for Asia, and Steve Chabot, the first Republican on the panel, hope their “IndoPacific […]
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The material received by Copasir identifies the channels used for propaganda and reconstructs the contacts. Thus the "machine" triggers counter-information at key moments by attacking pro-Kiev politicians and supporting those on the side of the Russians. So wrote the Corriere della Sera, highlighting the probable dossier activity by our services [...]
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The site of the Senate, the Ministry of Defense, the portal of the Higher Institute of Health, that of the Orio al Serio airport in Bergamo, Genoa and Rimini. Over 50 sites have been hit in recent days by the cyber attack launched by pro-Russian hackers Killnet. An unprecedented offensive that raised the level of guard in the [...]
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Vladimir Putin is ill with cancer and escaped an assassination attempt in March. These are the conclusions of a secret report by the US 007 after the rumors that have been running around in recent weeks, according to what 'Newsweek' reveals, citing three executives from three different American intelligence agencies. In detail, the informants of [...]
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The pro-Russian hacker group, Killnet, had threatened him on Telegram: on May 30th at 5.00 am an irreparable attack on Italy will start. In fact, our country in the last 24 hours has been targeted by the group that has launched a massive attack never experienced before. Our most representative structure, the Agency [...]
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In various Italian cities, the State Police and the Carabinieri carried out numerous searches ordered by the District Prosecutor of Rome for association with the purpose of international terrorism, as part of a joint operation involving a total of 29 people. The operation constitutes the epilogue of the largest and most complex investigation aimed at preventing the terrorist threat of a religious origin deriving from the use [...]
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“We will deliver an irreparable blow to Italy”, the threat of the pro-Russian hackers of the Killnet group. After having attacked in recent days the Senate, the Ministry of Defense, the Police, the CSM), companies and airports and the Eurovision platform (failed ed), now the threat appears more extensive and would tend to block the IT structure of the whole country. In the afternoon […]
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The Senate and Defense sites were made unreachable during the day, along with other institutional sites. The Defense Staff in a statement announced that its site has been undergoing scheduled maintenance for some time. The Russian hacker group 'Killnet' who, according to [...]
read moreThe Financial Times during the “FT Weekend Festival” in Washington approached the director of the CIA, Bill Burns to ask him some questions about the situation abroad following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. China's position on the crisis in Ukraine. Burns said that Xi Jinping was particularly impressed by the developments of the war in [...]
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The Interministerial Committee for the Security of the Republic today extended the mandate for the directors of Aise, Giovanni Caravelli and Aisi, Mario Parente. The 61-year-old General of the Army Giovanni Caravelli was supposed to leave his post on May 16, now he will remain in his place for another 4 years. Carabinieri general Mario Parente, 64 years old [...]
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Russia is running out of precision missiles and its arms factories are failing to meet demand. The sanctions are having, albeit slowly, a clear impact on Russian war industrial production. Now Moscow is forced to transport its missiles from distant parts of the country to the Ukrainian front. "The […]
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Corriere della Sera reported that the Moscow Defense Ministry announced that eleven Italian professional fighters would have died in combat on Ukrainian territory. Russia has labeled them as mercenaries, like the other 50 compatriots who would have joined the International Battalion under the orders of the state [...]
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Purge within the FSB, the Moscow intelligence service, the former KGB. At least 150 officers have been dismissed by the security agencies because they are personally guilty of the setbacks suffered during the invasion of Ukraine. The news was disclosed by the London newspaper Times, primed by British intelligence sources. There's more: according to the English MI5, many [...]
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Yesterday Italy aligned itself with its Western partners by expelling 30 Russian diplomats who worked at the Russian Embassy in Italy. Berlin expelled 40, while France and Spain, respectively 35 and 25. The other countries of Europe follow: Romania, Sweden, Slovenia and Denmark. The spokesperson for the Moscow Foreign Ministry, Maria [...]
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the night, in a heartfelt video, talks about the Russian forces that would be gathering in the south to attack the Donbass massively. Today negotiations should resume and perhaps the opening of the desired humanitarian corridor in favor of some 200 civilians trapped in Mariupol, before the final Russian attack. Western intelligence and [...]
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The Ukrainian military intelligence agency yesterday published a list with the names, addresses and passport numbers of 600 Russian citizens, alleged agents of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB). The FSB is the Russian internal security and counter-intelligence agency and its staff also operate in the former Soviet republics, including [...]
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Will it be propaganda or a (likely) tip-off from Russian intelligence passed under the table to the Ukrainian intelligence agency? Ukrainians argue that a conspiracy is underway by senior Russian government officials, with the aim of ousting (perhaps even by killing) President Vladimir Putin and fostering a negotiated agreement with the West. They thought about prudence [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Moscow has announced that for the first time in Ukraine it has used the Kinzhal, hypersonic ballistic missiles with nuclear or conventional capability that are launched by a modified Mig-31. It is one of the six "next generation" weapons cited by Putin in his speech on March 1, 2018. A demonstration to the world that hypersonic technology [...]
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A covert program run by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which began shortly after the Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine in 2014, is said to be helping Ukrainians repel the Russian military advance. According to Yahoo News, the CIA began training Ukrainian special forces personnel, starting in 2015, when the Kremlin took away Crimea [...]
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"The analysis of the intertwining between military security and economic security, illustrated yesterday by President Urso in the Senate with the COPASIR report, indisputably signals that, in this phase of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the issue of cyber security is re-proposed in equal measure to the other issues subject to in-depth analysis. However, we are well aware that a mono intelligence apparatus [...]
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Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, it is appropriate to learn more about the state apparatus that allows the modern Tsar, Vladimir Putin, to keep the whole world in check. Against a GDP of just over 1700 US dollars (year 2020), Moscow spends around 4 percent each year on military spending (70 [...]
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The FSB, the formerly feared KGB is under attack, this time not by foreign secret services but by Vladimir Putin himself. The president allegedly had the head of a division of the FSB arrested and his deputy, accusing them of not having duly informed him about Ukraine's resilience. According to what Andrei Soldatov reported on Meduza [...]
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In a small town in western Ukraine, intelligence officers crowd around a cluster of screens. The interface of the Russian government websites appears, from where files are downloaded as hackers try to identify any possible weaknesses in the infrastructure. This is the new "top secret" headquarters of the Cyber Intelligence Division of the [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Many NATO countries, including Italy, are sending weapons to Poland in support of the Ukrainian resistance. From information, osint would be the Rzeszow Jasionka airport (100km from the Ukrainian border), the one used to send Western aid to Ukraine. The airport is located close to the E40 motorway which leads directly to Kiev. At the airport there are [...]
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According to US military experts, a wide range of Russian military equipment, which has fallen into the hands of Ukrainian forces since February 24, could prove to be a "gold mine" for US and Western intelligence agencies. As the war enters its third week, there is well-founded information that Ukrainian forces have come into possession [...]
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The director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, in a hearing in the US Congress, said that Putin would be ready to double his forces on the ground because at this point in the conflict he cannot lose the war and above all his face both inside and in the front. to the International Community: "We assess that Putin feels afflicted by the fact [...]
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"The TV is fucking us and we drink it." Thus a Russian soldier, Valera, imprisoned by the Ukrainians while talking on the phone with his family at home. The scene is filmed by the military in Kiev and expertly broadcast online to counter Putin's propaganda which, in Russia, tells another version of the war. Vara [...]
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Once intelligence could predict the enemy's moves well in advance, now it apparently failed to read Russia's real intentions. You have often told of Putin's bluff. You started talking about the invasion of Ukraine only after the fact, that is when Moscow amassed over 150 thousand men [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) The invasion of Georgia in 2008, the annexation of Crimea in 2014, the "peace" interventions in Nagorno-Karabakh in 2021 and in Kazakhstan in January of this year, the intervention in Syria in 2015 in support of Bashar Assad, in Libya in 2017 to protect Khalifa Haftar and the Wagner mercenaries scattered from Cyrenaica [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Conventional attack with aviation bombing and invasion with armored vehicles or simply massive cyber attacks, followed by a coup? The hybrid war has probably already begun, thousands would be fake social accounts that have been making propaganda for the Russian separatists of the Donbass for months. It would therefore be [...]
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After the annexation of Crimea by Russia, Ukrainian intelligence has established close and confidential relations with the American counterpart. A report, written by Zach Dorfman, Yahoo News national security correspondent, cites the reporting activity of more than half a dozen former US intelligence and Ukrainian national security officials. To manage [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Last week, French Defense Minister Florence Parly said during a radio interview that France is not forced to maintain its military presence in Mali at all costs. Open sources say that the transalpine government's decision to withdraw from Mali could be taken as early as the next two weeks. [...]
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Karim Masimov (or Massimov), head of Kazakhstan's internal intelligence agency, was arrested by his own agency for alleged acts of high treason. Massimov was twice Prime Minister of Kazakhstan under his political mentor, former President Nursultan Nazarbayev. Nazarbayev, traditionally referred to as the "father of the nation", has kept Masimov in his [...]
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The Malian government last Friday flatly denied the baseless accusations of an alleged deployment of paramilitary elements of a private Russian company, Wagner. The government of Mali asking for evidence on the heavy accusations wanted to specify that some "Russian instructors" were in Mali as part of the strengthening of the operational capacity of the forces [...]
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Saudi Arabia is building its own ballistic missiles, with the help of China. This was supported by the US broadcaster CNN, which in an exclusive report states that US intelligence agencies have been informed about a series of clues collected, including satellite photos, classified. If confirmed, the hypothesis would complicate the situation in the Middle East, also modifying the strategic balance, [...]
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A senior US government official told Reuters that US and Israeli defense chiefs are discussing possible joint military exercises in preparation for an attack aimed at destroying Iranian nuclear facilities. The talks scheduled in the United States with the Israeli Defense Minister, Benny Gantz, follow a briefing [...]
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News leaked yesterday that the iPhones of 11 US embassy employees working in Uganda were hacked using spyware developed by the Israeli NSO group, Pegasus. The Tel Aviv surveillance company had already been included a month ago in the American black list of unreliable companies that collaborate [...]
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According to a report, released last Sunday by the Wall Street Journal, the Taliban managed to seize power in a very short time last summer, according to a well-studied plan that involved the use of a vast network of intelligence agents and agents sleepers located in the main Afghan cities. Such personnel, loyal to the Taliban, were wisely infiltrated [...]
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With a parliamentary question, the deputies Enrico Borghi and Filippo Sensi ask for further information and repentance from Prime Minister Mario Draghi, being the National Authority for Security, Defense and the Interior on a contract entrusted to a Chinese company, Hikvision. “Hikvision has been accused of providing surveillance equipment to the internment camps. There is a [...]
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French companies have delivered a total population surveillance system to Egypt. An apparatus capable of intercepting billions of telephone and internet communications, locating the positions of users and highlighting all their present and past relationships. A very powerful means that Cairo has used, writes La Repubblica, to arrest thousands [...]
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(by Giuseppe Gorga, Aidr partner) Attacks on the IT networks of companies and public bodies are increasing. Recent sensational case, is that of the attack on the Lazio Region at the beginning of August 2021. The CIA and Europoll are also investigating The management of the risk of cyber attacks is not always simple, since cybercrime evolves skills and abilities hand in hand [...]
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The Isis magazine al Naba returns to threaten Italy and the foreign minister, publishing a photo of Luigi Di Maio at the summit of the anti-Daesh coalition last June in Rome together with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. In the article entitled 'Why the Caliphate scares them!' also a hint of the 'conquest of [...]
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A group of foreign hackers, probably linked to China, has managed to breach at least nine American organizations active in strategic sectors, such as defense, energy, health, technology and education. This was announced in a report by the cybersecurity agency Palo Alto Networks, drawn up with the participation of the National Security Agency (NSA). This group of cyber criminals is not [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Very often we rely on online platforms to search for and then book a holiday, or to reserve rooms for receptions or conferences in luxury hotels around the world. A "last minute" offer in particularly popular places is an opportunity not to be missed. Just register on the site, provide all the details, enter the data of the [...]
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The Government of Israel opposes the decision of the US Department of Commerce to have blacklisted two Tel Aviv companies, dedicated to programming software for digital surveillance, because they are found guilty of having acted in activities contrary to national security or interests of US foreign policy. The [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) As expected, Afghanistan has come out of the spotlight of the international media. The Taliban, despite the promises of the Doha agreement, continue with their law, which is decidedly austere and against any form of westernization of the newborn Islamic Emirate and of society. Faced with a non-existent economy with few prospects, no [...]
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A process is underway in the United States that could have very serious diplomatic repercussions between Washington and Beijing. The court case concerns Yanjun Xu, also known as Qu Hui or Zhang Hui, who, according to American judges, appears to be the deputy director of an important division of the Ministry of State Security (MSS), the agency [...]
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The Turkish intelligence organization MIT, after almost a year of investigations, stalking, environmental surveys and the involvement of 200 agents, managed to have 7 people arrested on October 15th on charges of spying for the Israeli Mossad services . The goal of the secret partnership was to spy on Palestinian students residing in Turkey. Friday […]
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(by Andrea Pinto) The aim was the constitution of a well-trained group of "mercenaries" to be recruited preferably from newly retired military and policemen. Target? Fighting in Yemen on behalf of Saudi Arabia. The judicial and police authorities, with the collaboration of the intelligence services, managed to tighten the circle and put [...]
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The intelligence chiefs of the United States, Japan and South Korea will meet in Seoul behind closed doors this week. A very important meeting to bring South Korea and Japan closer together after the diplomatic quarrel of the last two years that risked compromising intelligence cooperation between the two countries. The agreement, known as [...]
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(by Giuseppe Gorga, Aidr partner) Attacks on the IT networks of companies and public bodies are increasing. Recent sensational case, is that of the attack on the Lazio Region at the beginning of August 2021. The CIA and Europoll are also investigating The management of the risk of cyber attacks is not always simple, since cybercrime evolves skills and abilities hand in hand [...]
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Israel accused Iran of hatching a plot to kill Israeli citizens in the Republic of Cyprus. The heavy accusation, following the arrest of a man, of Azerbaijani origin and with a Russian passport, found in possession of a pistol with a silencer. Cypriot police reportedly followed the suspected killer as he entered [...]
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A new war is underway in Afghanistan, the biometric one. In their daring deployment, the Americans most likely left millions of data and information on at least 30 million Afghans in the hands of the Taliban. In 20 years of employment, Western troops have carried out the largest and most modern census in history in Afghanistan, [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) A few hours ago the news broke, at least five rockets were launched against the Kabul airport but were intercepted by the American anti-missile system. There seem to be no casualties at the moment. Fox reports citing American defense sources. According to rumors, reported by other media, citing witnesses, the rockets were launched [...]
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The last flight of the Italian Air Force for the humanitarian airlift between Afghanistan and Italy landed at Fiumicino airport, carrying 110 people, including 58 Afghans. Also on board the ambassador Pontecorvo, the consul Claudi and the carabinieri of Tuscania. Pontecorvo explained that 120 thousand people were taken away from the town and, now that [...]
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Security officers at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar have discovered that one of the Afghans evacuated from Kabul airport has potential ties to ISIS. The news was given by a US official at Defense One. In addition, the biometric identification system of the Department of Defense has reported at least another 100, of the [...]
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Some of the top Taliban leaders are gathering in Kabul these days to discuss the formation of a new Afghan government. A representative of the country's most feared terrorist group, known as the Haqqani Network, will also be part of the new cabinet. The Haqqani have been accused of having performed the [...]
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The German secret services, Federal Intelligence Service or BND, are under the storm eye of opinion and politics for not having anticipated the rapid rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Critics from every political faction have described the situation in Afghanistan as a "disaster" for German interests and questioned its effectiveness [...]
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The question we have all asked ourselves, but who finances the Taliban? What is certain is that the money has served and so much to live in hiding for 20 years. Given that now they no longer need weapons because they have full deposits left by the dissolved Afghan army, it is still interesting to be able to understand how [...]
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In an era where computer violations and data thefts become more and more frequent and risk immobilizing the economic and social functions of a state, our country has equipped itself with a National Cybersecurity Agency, with the aim of protecting national interests. in the field of cybersecurity and [...]
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The Bloomberg news agency has revealed the contents of a US intelligence report according to which there are plans to create an autonomous mission center dedicated entirely to China. Today China is monitored by the center for East Asia and the Pacific, which focuses on a larger geographic region that also includes China. The idea [...]
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The Region following the most massive hacker attack ever is trying to reactivate the various services and return to normalcy. The vaccine reservation center is already in operation. As for outpatient specialist services, from yesterday until the reactivation of the Regional Booking System it is possible to contact the [...]
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The Lazio Region tries to return, with great difficulty, to normalcy after having suffered the most massive hacker attack ever recorded in Italy. The vaccination booking platform has been reactivated and the vaccination registry is also operational: 3.000 requests have already been registered in a few hours. IT analysts and investigators, to what [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) All over the world there are large-scale hacker attacks, in some cases, targeting critical infrastructures causing serious problems that are difficult to solve immediately. A phenomenon that has shown, in a disarming way, the extreme vulnerability of States in the face of the virtual threat whose principal (often of state origin) is [...]
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The New York Times has published satellite images, taken in the Xinjiang region, which show the construction of at least 110 silos intended to house intercontinental missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads. It is the second site identified in recent weeks. The first journalistic scoop on the subject was made by the Washington Post. The images were taken by [...]
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At least fourteen current or former heads of state, including presidents, prime ministers and a king, are reportedly included in a list of 50.000 phone numbers that would be compromised by spyware known as Pegasus, marketed by NSO Group Technologies, a company of Israeli digital surveillance based near Tel Aviv. Pegasus [...]
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A senior MI5 executive, Ken Mc Callum has warned the British public about the danger of Chinese and Russian spies very active on British soil in an attempt to steal technology, sow social discord and attack the country's critical infrastructure. The threat, argues the senior official, must be treated on an equal footing with that arising from Islamic terrorism. [...]
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The Italian Foreign Minister, Luigi Di Maio would be in the crosshairs of ISIS, after having co-chaired the ministerial meeting of the anti-Daesh coalition in Rome with the American Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The ISIS weekly al Naba published a few days ago an article about threats against Italy and the Foreign Minister, in which [...]
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“Italy arrived late on the topic of cybersecurity”, the comment of the Delegated Authority for the security of the Republic Franco Gabrielli at the hearing of the Constitutional Affairs and Transport commissions of the Chamber. The next step is the conversion into law of the decree that regulates the Agency. In this regard Gabrielli specified: "We can no longer afford to waste time on an issue that may not [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Western intelligence agencies are certain that the new global crises will come from Africa where terrorist violence is renewing with the birth of many "caliphates" while the Islamic State, al-Qaeda and other militias exploit the withdrawal of foreign troops to reorganize. After years of attrition in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, [...]
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The National Cybersecurity Agency (Acn) was born, provided for by a decree, still under 19 articles which, already presented to Copasir by the Undersecretary for Services Franco Gabrielli, was given the go-ahead by the Council of Ministers. According to the decree, in addition to the Acn, an interministerial committee is set up at Palazzo Chigi for the [...]
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A UN report on the civil war in Libya revealed that drones and artificial intelligence were used to track down and kill opponents. In these operations, the militias fighting General Haftar's troops would use Turkish drones equipped with artificial intelligence, including facial recognition technology. They launched drones like [...]
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The American promise to European countries not to commit more wiretapping after the wiretapping scandal that came to light in 2013 from the revelations of Edward Snowden has not been kept. To reveal the background of the recent and incredible American spy story to the detriment of some European countries was the Danish public television DR. The US [...]
read moreThe United States Department of Justice and the Central Intelligence Agency could intervene in a civil case involving a Saudi spy in exile against the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman. In a 106-page lawsuit filed last year in the United States District Court in Washington, DC, Dr. […]
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According to a Newsweek report, the US Department of Defense has a "secret army" of over 60.000 agents, many of whom work underground around the world with false identities, the staffing, by comparison, is 10 times the number of CIA agents. According to William Arkin, author of the report, the Pentagon's secret agents are part of [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Olimpio Guido su Corsera speaks outspokenly about the never completed operations of the Israeli Mossad against Hamas militants and against the various supporters of the terrorist group around the world. The so-called Hamas bomb squads, those who supply Hamas with low-cost weapons or study new [...]
read more(by Andrea Pinto) Today's Israeli airstrikes on Gaza resulted in the deaths of 33 Palestinians, including eight children, Gaza health officials told Reuters, while Hamas militants fired a barrage of rockets this morning at 'Sunrise. The death toll in Gaza records a total of 181 [...]
read moreThe CIA used the Jab vaccination program to track down Bin Laden in his hideout in Pakistan. The vaccination program, the Taliban mullahs said, was part of a secret CIA plot. This was the narrative used, at the time, with the followers to discredit the American health activity, the Taliban argued that [...]
read moreThe United States Central Intelligence Agency has set up a task force to examine recent cases of the so-called "Havana Syndrome," a mysterious medical condition that continues to baffle experts. The issue came to light in 2017, when Washington recalled most of its staff from its embassy in Havana, [...]
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A Leghorn is wanted, he would have hired mercenaries in Italy with military Kalashnikovs and uniforms of the Moscow army, who fight in Ukraine alongside pro-Russian troops. The last to be arrested by the Carabinieri del Ros is a young man from Messina recruited when he was just 23 years old. Investigators investigate the various levels of an organization that [...]
read moreJoe Biden's US takes another step forward, yesterday on the third day of negotiations in Vienna with Iran, aiming to return to the nuclear agreement, JCPOA. A turning point that Israel does not like, which has always been threatened by Iran with being razed to the ground with an atomic bomb. On Friday the head of Mossad Yossi Cohen, [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Yesterday the official status, the Italian naval attaché at the embassy in Moscow is no longer a welcome person. Thus, today the captain of the vessel, Curzio Pacifici will have to repatriate. The Farnesina's reaction was immediate: “deep regret is expressed for the unilateral decision of the Kremlin”. Our officer unlike the two Russian officials Dmitri Ostroukhov and Aleksey [...]
read more(by Andrea Pinto) The American intelligence community has recently drafted the Global Risk Assessment Report where it warns the government about Chinese initiative in the development of new military space programs, capable of targeting US and allied satellites. The report, drawn up by the Office of the National Director of Intelligence, highlights that the Chinese Defense would be seriously [...]
read moreIran hunts down "Israeli infiltrators" after the explosion that took place last Sunday in one of the largest nuclear power plants in the country. The spies of the Jewish state are accused of having blown up the electrical systems essential for the operation of the plant. Even if the Iranian authorities minimize the incident, it is the third big [...]
read moreIn the midst of the alleged Israeli cyber attack against the Natanz plant, there is the resumption, albeit feeble, of talks to resume the nuclear deal between the US and Iran. In Vienna in recent days there are "indirect" talks between the US and Iran to consider a possible approach on the issue. The Iranian Atomic Agency reported that [...]
read moreIran arrested an "Israeli spy" and a number of other people who were in contact with foreign intelligence, without giving the nationality of those arrested, according to what Iranian state media reported on Monday, and reported by Reuters. "An Israeli spy was arrested in the Iranian province of Eastern Azerbaijan ... also other spies who [...]
read more"I swear to be loyal to the Italian Republic, to observe its Constitution and laws and to fulfill with discipline and honor all the duties of my state for the defense of the homeland and the safeguarding of free institutions". Thus says article 575 of the Military Code, with reference to the formula of Oath of men and [...]
read moreTwo Russian diplomats stationed in Bulgaria have been declared "unwanted persons" by the Bulgarian government because they were allegedly involved in an affair that led to the arrest of at least six Bulgarian citizens, accused of having carried out acts of espionage on behalf of Moscow. As reported by intelNews, the six arrested were stopped by counter-intelligence [...]
read moreStories and plots of spies, known and lesser known arrests, the fact is that a former American intelligence analyst served 30 years in prison for having betrayed his country in favor of Israel. We are talking about Jonathan Pollard, former US Navy intelligence analyst in the 80s, was arrested for passing on information [...]
read more(by Andrea Pinto) The Times reports that Russia has sent "jamming" against RAF planes - Royal Air Force - taking off from the island of Cyprus. Military intelligence sources reported that a "hostile state" has systematically attempted to interfere with the satellite communications of the A400M transport aircraft with [...]
read moreAn intelligence report done for the US Congress and the White House warns that violent extremism by racial and ethnic groups is "metastazing" across the country and "almost certainly" could translate into more violent demonstrations in the country. course of 2021. The report was drawn up by the National Counterterrorism Office, in [...]
read moreFly a small drone to reload and extract data from bugs (bug sensors) abroad. British intelligence studies a solution by relying on small drones capable of carrying out their mission in the dark and in disguise. (by Massimiliano D'Elia) Spy sensors located in distant territories, even non-national ones that work as long as the battery is [...]
read moreIran used commercial satellite imagery to monitor Iraq's Ain al-Asad airbase before launching a dozen ballistic missiles at US and coalition forces. The missile strike damaged the base, equipment, a helicopter and injured 110 people. The alarm of the imminent attack had been announced by the Space satellite operators [...]
read moreTwo NATO countries, the USA and Turkey have decided to collaborate on a joint investigation referring to a Russian missile system, the Pantsir, recovered in Libya on the battlefield. We are talking about the system that recently shot down two Predator remotely piloted aircraft of the American and Italian armed forces, respectively. Turkish troops are present [...]
read more(by Andrea Pinto) Even the management of aqueducts over the years has passed from analog to digital systems. An innovative way to ensure the continuous control of water purity and save resources to pay employees who over time have had to leave their jobs in favor of a few more [...]
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On the Eurispes website a very interesting interview with the president of the Security Observatory, General Pasquale Preziosa, former Chief of Staff of the Air Force until 2016. The topic addressed concerns today's concept of security, and in particular of security national, and on the role that communication assumes in representing the complexity of the globalized world. General Precious, the [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Today's market is data, billions of billions of information that make it possible to profile individuals, companies, nations and even illicit trafficking in things and why not also in human beings. The gold of our times is not the single data but the complex of data, precisely those that we ourselves provide [...]
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A very unique and embarrassing revelation. Michelle Obama's personal email was allegedly hacked by a group of American cyber-spies who worked for the UAE government. The book, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends, written by Nicole Perlroth, a journalist who deals with related topics [...]
read moreThe State Police has implemented the measure of pre-trial detention in prison against a 24-year-old Italian foreign fighter for association with the purpose of terrorism, including international, enlistment, condoning terrorism and incitement to commit crimes for these purposes. The operation is the result of a complex investigation, coordinated by the Public Prosecutor's Office [...]
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US Central Intelligence Agency director Gina Haspel allegedly threatened to step down to prevent a White House plan to replace her with a staunch ally of President Donald Trump. The American news site Axios reported Saturday, citing three "senior officials of the US administration". President Trump allegedly planned [...]
read moreThe New York Times reports that the Trump administration, according to a member of the intelligence community, politicized intelligence on foreign election interference in 2020. It allegedly manipulated reports submitted to Congress and public opinion. Barry A. Zulauf, the Ombudsman in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, found "a loss of objectivity" and politicization of intelligence [...]
read moreOn Saturday, the Afghan government expelled 10 Chinese intelligence agents from the country who allegedly had contact with pro-Taliban groups. The Afghan National Security Directorate (NDS) arrested 10 Chinese citizens in Kabul on 10 December on charges of espionage, according to reports from several Indian news agencies last December. Between […]
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Thus in a note, the president of the Parliamentary Committee for the Security of the Republic - Copasir -, Raffaele Volpi highlighted the main topics on which the high Committee will continue to focus attention in the wake already traced in the course of 2020: "In look to the new year the Parliamentary Committee for the security of the Republic is preparing, [...]
read moreHundreds of online newspapers praise the holy war by educating lone wolves all over the world. A favorable moment due to the lack of attention of governments struggling with measures to combat the pandemic from Covid-19. (by Andrea Pinto) The holy war jihad has not been affected by the restrictions due to [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) We have doubled the precision missiles aimed at Israel, the head of Hezbollah in Lebanon told pro-Hezbollah television. The interview lasted four hours and many argue that it was released to cheer up the group's followers after the most disastrous year for Lebanon since the civil war. [...]
read moreIranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, suspected of being the mastermind of the Islamic republic's alleged nuclear weapons program, was killed yesterday in what the country's foreign minister called a "state terrorist act". The Iranian Ministry of Defense said that Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, head of the Research Center on [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) In silence without informing our two intelligence agencies Aisi and Aise and not only them, the head of the Dis (Department that oversees the two agencies of the Italian 007s), prefect Gennaro Vecchione sent the Copasir - Parliamentary Committee for the Security of the Republic - a letter to present an unusual [...]
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Israeli TV reported that Mossad (the external intelligence agency), would have provided the country with a vaccine against CoVid-19 produced in China. The news came following the government announcement this weekend that it was stepping up diplomatic efforts to acquire the best coronavirus vaccine. According to The Jerusalem newspaper [...]
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The US Department of Justice has accused six members of the Russian military intelligence agency of alleged involvement in cyberattacks around the world against several countries. The allegations, announced Monday in Pittsburgh, represent a rare move by the US administration which publicly revealed the names of the six 007s. According to the US government, […]
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Network security goes to the Pentagon. We are not talking about the physical security of networks but about discovering "fake news" which, as seen, if used massively, can affect political campaigns but also the behavior of the population. Corsera reports that the USAF, the American Air Force would be developing software capable of automatically scanning the contents [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Ammonium nitrate, a common fertilizer, is used to build devastating explosives, is not expensive and is easily transportable. A precious resource for terrorist groups so much so that, apparently, they would have it in large quantities already available in various European countries. It is enough that order arrives and the sleeper cells are ready to [...]
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According to a report by American intelligence agencies, Iran is trying to avenge the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani in January of this year. Soleimani, head of the elite military corps, "the Guardians of the Revolution" was killed by a US drone attack during a visit to the Iraqi capital Baghdad. The "Politico" website reported the news [...]
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Former intelligence chief at the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Brian Murphy filed a complaint yesterday with the DHS Inspector General's office, claiming he was forced to manipulate his analyzes for reasons purely political.
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The global competition to be the first to discover the vaccine capable of reducing the spread of COVID-19 has also directed and modified the “core business” of the main global intelligence agencies. In an article published by the New York Times, some interviews with intelligence officers on duty and on leave and with [...]
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According to the Financial Times Merkel is facing intense pressure to abandon the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project, which will transport gas from Russia to Germany. The motivation is to punish Moscow after ascertaining the poisoning of Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny. The bipartisan German parliamentarians are asking Berlin to abandon its support [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) The decree extending the emergency until October 15 also contains a substantial change to the 2007 law on our Secret Services. With the decree "changing four little words", the Government has guaranteed the top of Italian intelligence the possibility of renewing their office for another four years. Concern was recorded among the oppositions, [...]
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At the JFC (Joint Force Command) of NATO in Lago Patria, in the province of Naples, what can be defined as a real "spy story" took place. A 50-year-old French army officer was arrested in Paris before returning from vacation at his base in Campania. According to an internal DGSI investigation, [...]
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The 2007 law on our secret services was amended with the emergency decree on the pandemic. The Corriere della Sera reports that "by changing four little words" the Government has guaranteed the top of Italian intelligence the possibility of renewing their office for another four years. It was not understood why to change the duration of these assignments but yes [...]
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Shabtai Shavit, one of the longest serving directors of the Israeli security agency known as Mossad, said Israel and the world cannot prevent Iran from developing its own nuclear arsenal. The super agent recommends focusing on deterrent systems instead. Shavit, now 80, has a long career in one of [...]
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Senior UK officials said the country will seek to "modernize" its counterintelligence laws after a parliamentary report criticized the government for failing to stop Russian espionage operations. Earlier this week, a report by the Intelligence and Security Committee of [...]
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There was mounting tension in Iraq over the weekend as the Baghdad government reported arresting over a dozen members of a powerful Iranian-backed Shiite militia. It is the first time that the Shia-led Iraqi government has taken steps to reduce the growing power of these [...]
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Four men were arrested by Turkish authorities in Istanbul, believed to be members of a spy cell run by an agent who collected information on extremist groups in favor of French intelligence. The arrests were reported on Tuesday by a newspaper linked to the Turkish government. However, the news of the arrests was not confirmed by [...]
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In a recent video message, the new head of the Islamic State defines COVID-19 as a "great torment" by Allah against non-believers and swears that "not a single day will pass without bloodshed". The 39-minute video is titled "The Crusaders Will Know Who Will Win in the End" and has started to circulate [...]
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A campaign of computer viruses invests Italy in the hours in which the Immuni app is about to be made available on digital stores. To make it known with an Agid-Cert notice, the government structure that deals with computer security. The virus is called FuckUnicorn and spreads ransomware (a virus that takes devices hostage [...]
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The Islamic State continues to move its activities online due to the coronavirus pandemic. The terrorist group recently published the first issue of a new cybersecurity magazine, to help its members gain a deeper cyber culture and help them against surveillance by intelligence agencies. The state […]
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The Parliamentary Committee for the Security of the Republic takes note of the in-depth analysis carried out by the Honorable Borghi (PD) and expresses concern about the use of techniques to make the news viral: above all the COVID-19 pandemic was at the center of a widespread activity of online disinformation, which includes state actors, structured actors (think tanks, stakeholders, professionals [...]
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The German Federal Court of Justice has ruled that intelligence agencies do not have the right to mass spy on the telecommunications of foreign citizens. The sentence, in response to a lawsuit brought by several groups of journalists after a dossier by Reporters Without Borders. Journalists collaborated with the German company for [...]
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The decision seems to be almost final. The United States is ready not to share intelligence information with the United Kingdom if the British government continues talks with the Chinese company Huawei Technologies to build the fifth generation cellular communications infrastructure. Many Western intelligence agencies believe that Huawei is very close to [...]
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Terrorism experts have warned that the Islamic State could exploit the global instability caused by the new coronavirus pandemic to organize a global recovery. Indeed, there are signs that the activity of Islamic states has intensified in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and even Europe in the past few days. On [...]
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(by Vanessa Tomassini - correspondent from Tunis) The interim UN special envoy, Stephanie Williams, has warned about the possible use of new lethal weapons in Libya. On April 22, 2020, several reports circulating on social media indicated that the Eastern armed forces would use chemical weapons against forces affiliated with the Government of National Accord [...]
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Belgium's two major intelligence agencies have released a declassified report warning that national groups linked to the far left and far right are using the COVID-19 pandemic to destabilize society. The report was published Wednesday on the website of the State Security Service (VSSE), the main intelligence agency […]
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According to an article by Bridget Johnson, chief editor of Homeland Security Today, extremist groups around the world are taking advantage of the Covid-19 pandemic to reorganize and spread chaos and violence. Johnson explains that most groups, through proclamations, "have shown some concern" for the health and well-being of their members, for [...]
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General Mark Milley, Chief of the US Defense Staff (chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) said that "evidence" gathered by Western spy agencies indicates that COVID-19 has "natural" origins. But every other hypothesis has not yet been ruled out. Since the virus was discovered, eminent scientists [...]
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The US Department of Defense has banned its employees from using the Zoom application, the popular application used for video conferencing. The fear is that foreign intelligence agencies may use developers' software to gather information. The Pentagon made the announcement after the United States Senate had advised [...]
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According to the British newspaper The Guardian, analysts from British intelligence agencies, the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) and the Security Service (MI5), have signaled to policymakers that the Chinese government is promoting the narrative that their Covid-19 contrast system was more effective and successful than [...]
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The US administration is considering expelling dozens of Chinese diplomats and journalists from the country, as they are believed to be undercover spies. Earlier this month, the Chinese government announced the expulsion of 13 American journalists from three major newspapers, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the Washington Post. Beijing has imposed on [...]
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(by Vanessa Tomassini - correspondent from Tunis) Ramadan Abedi, father of the Manchester Arena suicide bomber, Salman Abedi, arrested in Libya following the terrorist attack that killed 22 people during the Ariana Grande concert, is receiving medical assistance in Istanbul, Turkey. Abedi father was arrested in Libya together with his youngest son, [...]
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A cyberattack, associated with a disinformation campaign, targeted the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) computer systems in what officials believe was an effort to undermine the U.S. response to the pandemic. from coronavirus. The cyber attack reportedly took place [...]
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In order not to compromise military readiness, military forces around the world are taking all possible measures to try to contain the spread of COVID-19 among defense personnel. The virus continues to infect troops and commanders at an alarming rate. On Tuesday, the Polish government announced that General Jaroslaw Mika is […]
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US intelligence agencies are using "a wide range" of tools, ranging from open source information gathering to interception of communications and "humint", to collect all data on the spread of the coronavirus. At the end of last week, the most reliable information on the spread of the virus, known as COVID-19, came only [...]
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(by Vanessa Tomassini) Concerns about Qatar's suspected role in promoting extremism and terrorism have grown in Europe in recent years. While much has emerged about the substantial funding for the construction of new mosques and much is emerging about donations to Western universities and think-tanks, very little is known about who [...]
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A possible peace agreement between the US government and the Taliban will favor the Islamic State in Afghanistan, so some sources on the ground reported. After nearly two decades of war, the United States is close to concluding a peace agreement with the Taliban, the Sunni group of Pashtuns that had [...]
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The Russian government has sent a number of secret agents to Ireland to monitor submarine fiber optic cables, which enable communications traffic between North America and Western Europe. The spies were reportedly sent to Ireland by the main directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, which is known in Russia as [...]
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Iran has launched a satellite into orbit, the announcement was made by an Iranian minister, as part of a new civilian program. However, the launch failed, like those already attempted in recent years. The United States believes that behind the launch of the satellite there is a correlation with the development of new [...]
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The district anti-mafia and anti-terrorism management of Genoa arranged for the arrest and search of the ship "Bana", currently stopped at the Messina terminal in Genoa. The Digos and the harbor master's office are carrying out a joint search, "they confiscated the ship's black box, maps, PCs, ship's books and all [...]
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The US State Department has issued an "alert" on Italy, US citizens who intend to stay in our country are advised "to be more cautious". The “level 2” warning concerns countries where the risk of an attack could be high. Level 2 is the second of four danger levels. [...]
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The director of the British national intelligence agency has rejected the American warning to stop sharing intelligence information if London decides to use Chinese-made telecommunications hardware. Washington has hindered Huawei Technologies, one of the world's leading telecommunications hardware manufacturers, from entering into contracts to build the infrastructure [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) The air distance between the capitals of Iran and Italy is about 3750 km, but the distance between the two borders could be reached by Iranian missiles. Indeed, Iranian missiles can hit targets within a range of 300 to 2.500 kilometers from their launch point. [...]
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Ajniha Airlines, owned by former leader of the Libyan Islamic fighter group Abdelhakim Belhaj, has transferred Turkish-backed Syrian fighters from their country to Tripoli, French radio RFI reported today. In addition to Ajniha Airlines, Afriqiyah Airlines has transferred Syrian fighters to help the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) […]
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The libia.it site reported that the Libyan Islamist component, represented by the Libyan National Assembly of Revolutionaries on February 17, has called for a demonstration in the capital on January 7 against the arrival of the European delegation and in support of the protocols of Agreement between Erdogan and Serraj. The group affirmed its clear refusal to visit [...]
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Defensepoint.com demonstrated via the free FlightRadar 24 app (monitors all airline flights with transponders on) that Turkey is using civilian flights to transport war material and personnel to Libya. Recent reports show, in fact, an unusual air traffic from Constantinople to Libya, flying over the Greek airspace and inside the Athens FIR. [...]
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Ali Ahmed on the Libia.it website reported that the Presidential Council of the Government of National Accord (GNA), represented by Fayez al-Serraj, has warned local and international journalists of legal action if they dare to publish videos of the Syrian rebels who arrived in Tripoli with the support of Turkey. The Presidential Council stated that the films [...]
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The US Federal Bureau of Investigation says it is investigating possible counter-intelligence threats in connection with the popular online application #FaceApp, which is based in Russia. The application first appeared in January 2017 and quickly became popular with smartphone users around the world. Allows [...]
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European aerospace multinational Airbus has fired 16 of its employees for illegal possession of classified documents belonging to the German army. The Netherlands-registered airline, one of the largest in the world, cooperated in an investigation into the accident. The investigation has been conducted by the German authorities since September 2018. The incident, which the German authorities defined [...]
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The United States and Russia are at loggerheads over the extradition of a Russian cryptocurrency magnate arrested and detained in Greece. Apparently, according to rumors, the Kremlin spies used cryptocurrencies with the complicity of the company under investigation. The tycoon in question is Aleksandr Vinnik, 39, who in 2011 co-founded [...]
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The former director of Venezuela's military espionage agency, wanted in the United States for drug trafficking, disappeared in Spain while authorities were trying to extradite him to Washington. Hugo Carvajal is a retired general and former diplomat who was part of the inner circle of the late Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez. From 2004 to 2011, [...]
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An unprecedented amount of data including usernames, IP addresses and even the contents of thousands of private chat logs has been revealed on the net. The data belonged to the IronMarch website, which was founded in 2011 by Alexander Mukhitdinov, a Russian far-right activist who uses the [...]
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"My friends and colleagues in Rome decided to suggest I leave Rome immediately and find a place, they offered an out of the way place where I could stay". Speaking is Joseph Mifsud, the Maltese professor at the center of Russiagate - or Spygate in its Italian developments - who has disappeared since the end of October of [...]
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The cyber security of Italy and, therefore, of its strategic structures will be entrusted to a team of IT experts from the secret services. About thirty IT 007 will be included in the newborn national #Csirt (computer security incident response team), an organization already present in many countries. The Csirt, writes Il Sole 24Ore is located at the Dis, the [...]
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US authorities have accused two Twitter employees and a staff member of the Saudi Arabian royal family of spying for Riyadh. The Federal Bureau of Investigation filed a suit Wednesday in San Francisco, accusing the three men of "acting as agents" for Saudi Arabia. According to the FBI, the [...]
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According to a Turkish government official, the arrest of Rasmiya Awad, sister of the late leader of the Islamic State Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, which took place last Monday, is comparable to "an intelligence gold mine". Awad was arrested during a raid by the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army on a makeshift refugee camp in [...]
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The Facebook company that runs WhatsApp has filed a lawsuit against one of Israel's leading tech companies, accusing it of allowing governments around the world to spy on 1.400 high-profile users, including politicians and diplomats. The Reuters news agency said it had spoken to "people familiar" with the [...]
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American intelligence agencies are analyzing up to seven terabytes of data that was found by special operations forces during last week's night raid that killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Syria. Washington officials told the New York Times Monday that Delta Force commando kidnapped [...]
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Just a day after the United States announced the killing of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Sunni militant group replaced him with a former Iraqi military officer. US President Donald Trump said Sunday that al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed caliph of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), [...]
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The chemical structure and mechanism of action of a top-secret family of nerve agents known as novichoks may soon be on the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) list of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). The term novichok (which means "novice" in Russian) was given by Western scientists to a class of nerve agents [...]
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The Iranian government may have used a female intelligence officer to lure a leading Iranian dissident from his home in France in Iraq, where he was then kidnapped by Iranian security forces and secretly transported to Iran. The Iranian authorities gave the news of the arrest of Ruhollah Zam last October 15, news also confirmed [...]
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The former minister of DC Enzo Scotti, today founder of Link Campus University in Rome, speaks, in an interview with La Stampa, of Joseph Mifsud, the Maltese professor at the center of the international vortex of the “Russiagate”. “The last time I saw him he was here in the inside bar giving an interview. I waited a while for it to end, then I went [...]
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Marco Liconti of Adnkronos wrote a beautiful page on the international intrigue “Russiagate”. From the news agency it emerged that the Italian 007s were heard who categorically denied any involvement in the affair of the delivery of the two cell phones of Professor Joseph Mifsud to members of the American services. The fact is that the data extrapolated from [...]
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In a report, the New York Times argues that Russian intelligence is using an elite espionage unit whose sole objective is to carry out operations to subvert European political and economic systems. The unit allegedly carried out a series of intelligence operations in recent years, ranging from espionage to disinformation campaigns and even [...]
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In a surprising move last week, Iranian authorities arrested a Russian journalist in the Caucasus region, accused of spying on behalf of Israel. They later agreed to release her after diplomatic pressure from Russia. But the move surprised observers, because Iran rarely takes actions unwelcome to Moscow. The [...]
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The security chief of King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud of Saudi Arabia was shot dead under mysterious circumstances. Abdulaziz al-Fagham was a major general in the Royal Guard Corps of Saudi Arabia. He had the most delicate task: to protect the oldest members of the royal family. Al-Fagham served two kings, the king [...]
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One question among all after the drone and missile attacks on oil wells in Saudi Arabia on 14 September. Will there be an escalation between the Saudi kingdom and Iran? Riyadh directly accused the Islamic Republic of ordering the attacks. But speculation about a possible war is disconcerting, says Nesrine #Malik in [...]
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Yesterday the Council of Ministers approved the decree law on the perimeter of national cyber security. The provision is based on a system to guarantee the highest level of protection to public administrations, national, public and private entities and operators from cyber attacks. A system that, in essence, will have to protect the national strategic apparatuses. The novelty of [...]
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Russian authorities announced Tuesday that a gas explosion damaged a section of a medical facility in Siberia that houses live samples of viruses such as Ebola and smallpox, but added that a biomedical emergency did not need to be declared. The blast reportedly occurred on Monday at the State Research Center in [...]
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Tens of thousands of Islamic State supporters, many of them women and children, are radicalizing within vast Kurdish prison camps. In a shocking report published last week, the Washington Post highlighted the dire conditions in the al-Hawl prison camp in northern Syria, which the newspaper [...]
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According to a report by some analysts, al Qaeda has shifted its strategic focus from Yemen to Syria, but continues to pursue a globalist agenda by seeking ways to attack Western targets. Following the rise of the Islamic State in 2014, al-Qaeda has encountered certain difficulties in maintaining its leadership as the representative of the Sunni insurgency in all [...]
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Italy between Moscow and Beijing, at the base a launch of a failed space vector, a rocket produced in Italy by the AVI (Leonardo group) of Colleferro (Rome). To report it as reported by Il Messaggero, leading sources of the Italian secret services. #Avio, it may have been the victim of sabotage due to the intrigues that the intelligence has put in [...]
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The news aggregator BuzzFeed who started the Metropol scandal by publishing the audio transcripts of the meeting that took place on October 18 in the Moscow hotel, today announced the names of two of the Russians present at the table. NMGI - New Italian Geopolitical Movement reports it. These are two subjects close to two political personalities [...]
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A tweet from US President Donald #Trump may have compromised the secrets of America's satellite reconnaissance capabilities. According to experts who analyzed the tweet over the weekend. The US president posted a message about the Iranian space program on his personal Twitter account on Saturday, August 30. The message read: "The States [...]
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In a move that observers describe as unprecedented, a U.S. government regulation committee is likely to recommend halting construction of an 8.000-mile undersea cable connecting America with China over national security concerns. Washington, to date, has never stopped the construction of [...]
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The US Central Intelligence Agency - #CIA will not collect information on the UAE, although the kingdom's actions often go directly against American interests. The CIA policy, which some sources describe as "very unusual", does not see the growing distance between American interests and the foreign policies of the Emirates [...]
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One of ten Russian undercover spies arrested in the United States in 2010 and exchanged for American and British spies held by Moscow, spoke to Western media for the first time. Elena Vavilova was arrested by the American Federal Office in June 2010 along with her husband Andrei Bezrukov. During its two decades of activity [...]
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GSOMIA pact between South Korea and Japan terminated South Korea formally stopped sharing information with Japan as relations between the two countries reached their lowest point since they formally recognized each other in 1968. Seoul's decision is the latest in a series of [...]
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The Iraqi Shiite militia, which controls parts of Iraqi territory, attested by the Islamic State, has accused the United States and Israel of the mysterious explosions that occurred in weapons depots across the country. Much of the territory occupied by the Islamic State (also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS) in northern Iraq [...]
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Economic depression and lack of opportunities could soon spark a popular uprising in the occupied territories. This is what appears in a report drawn up by the intelligence of the Palestinian national authority warns and presented to the leadership of the PA at the beginning of August. The news was announced by "Yedioth Ahronoth", the best-selling Israeli newspaper, based in Tel [...]
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Angela #Merkel's successor in the leadership of the Christian Democratic Union (#CDU) has called for the removal of the country's former intelligence chief from the party, as he allegedly expressed far-right views. Opinions promptly withdrawn. Hans-Georg #Maassen headed the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) from August 2012 until its removal […]
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A senior Iranian intelligence official confirmed widespread rumors that an unprecedented anti-corruption campaign is taking place at the top of Iran's judiciary, with some senior figures already in prison. The Iranian judiciary is one of the most powerful and secretive institutions in the Islamic Republic. She is nominally nominated by the Iranian Ministry of Justice, [...]
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Iran's state-owned energy sector, one of the most profitable in the world, has become a major target of international espionage. It was therefore subjected to new sanctions by the United States this year. The purpose of the Washington sanctions is to limit the Islamic Republic's ability to export energy and, thereby, put an end to [...]
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France had struck an agreement with Palestinian terrorists, reports intnews.org. Paris allowed Palestinian militants to operate freely on its territory in exchange for not receiving terrorist attacks. The news leaked directly from the former director of the French national security service. The alleged agreement was reached between the French government and [...]
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The US Central Intelligence Agency plans to maintain a strong ground presence in Afghanistan, despite reports that US troops may soon leave the country following a deal with the Taliban. Several news agencies reported this week that Washington would reach an agreement with the Taliban [...]
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About 1.000 Islamic State fighters have returned to Iraq in recent months and are waging a low-level uprising that threatens to destabilize rural areas and could be the harbinger of a new war, an expert warned. Thousands of fighters belonging to the Islamic State - also known as the Islamic State of Iraq [...]
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According to the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence, the Islamic Republic has discovered an alleged "CIA network" operating in some sensitive private sector companies and government agencies that deal with defense, aerospace and energy. 17 alleged spies were reportedly arrested and sentenced to death. Tehran officials also said that all [...]
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Since the election of President Donald Trump, the issue of border security between the United States and Mexico has been a major topic of national debate. But the relentless attention to the southern border of the United States is due to the media and politicians ignoring the security concerns emanating from Canada. In an editorial [...]
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Piotr Durbajlo, former Polish intelligence officer arrested for espionage in China, released on bail
Piotr Durbajlo, arrested last January by the Polish authorities on charges of spying for China, was released on bail. The former counterintelligence officer had served as deputy director of the Internal Security Agency, the Polish national counterintelligence service. An expert in IT security, Durbajlo had also served in the Polish office for [...]
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An impressive hacker attack targeted specific individuals of interest to the Chinese government as they moved around the world in what appears to be the first such operation in cyberespionage history. The attack was revealed late last month by Cybereason, an American cybersecurity company based in Boston, [...]
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The son of a former South Korean government minister defected to North Korea. The first case of a South Korean citizen's desertion to North Korea. It is even rarer for such high-profile Korean citizens to defect to North Korea. The defector is #Choe In-guk, son of [...]
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Tensions between the US and Iran in the Strait of Hormuz have subsided but on the "web" it appears that Iranians are continuing their activity against US targets in the US and elsewhere. On Wednesday morning, the US Cyber Command tweeted that it had discovered "active malicious use" of a known bug in Microsoft [...]
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The Guardian, New York Times and Süddeutsche Zeitung reported the results of an investigation that reveals suspicious activities of the Chinese border police. Apparently it requires the control of tourists' mobile phones to "collect" all data and load a "spy" application. "Fēng cǎi", which can be translated as "Bees that collect honey" is the secret operation [...]
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According to Reuters, western hackers used a “Regin” malware described by experts as the “jewel” of cyber-espionage tools to hack the Russian version of Google in an attempt to hack into user accounts. The hackers targeted #Yandex (# Яндекс), a Moscow-based company that operates as a Russian version of Google. [...]
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According to a new report from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), the Islamic state is able to return to the Middle East much faster and more devastatingly than in 2014, when the group quickly conquered territory the size of the Great Britain, The Washington think tank report is based on the most [...]
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Iranian state media today announced the arrest of 16 officials in the country's oil ministry, allegedly accused of sabotaging Iran's energy policy. It is unclear whether these arrests are in any way connected with Tehran's announcement last week when it broke the news that it had dismantled "one of [...]
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Indian anti-terrorism officials said in court that four members of the Islamic State in Indian-administered Kashmir were led by an operator from Pakistan. The court case involves four young people from Jammu and Kashmir who were arrested last November on terrorism charges. Recently filed judicial documents identify the four as members of the Islamic State. [...]
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A senior Iranian security official said today that Tehran dismantled "one of the most complex espionage operations ever done" by the US Central Intelligence Agency, leading to "arrests in different countries and confessions" of an unknown number of suspects. The announcement was made by Ali Shamkhani secretary of the Supreme Council of [...]
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After only eight months after taking office, the Pakistani army fired the head of the powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) spy agency. The news was made known on Sunday with a brief statement by Inter-Services Public Relations, the public relations wing of the Pakistani armed forces, which announced that Lieutenant General Asim Munir had left [...]
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US President Donald Trump said he would not allow US intelligence agencies to use spies against North Korea. The American president was speaking to reporters in the White House last Tuesday when he was asked for an opinion on the report that appeared in the Wall Street Journal. According to the report, Kim [...]
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The Turkish spy agency has developed a smartphone application to allow pro-government Turks living in Germany to inform their compatriots who oppose the Justice and Development Party (AKP). The existence of the telephone application was revealed in the annual report of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), the main counter-intelligence agency of [...]
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Iran has announced that it will release a Lebanese US resident who has served nearly half of his 10-year prison sentence for allegedly spying on behalf of #Washington. Nizar #Zakka, 52, was born in Lebanon but studied in the United States, where he lived permanently until 2015. In September [...]
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The escalation of tension between the United States and #Iran, and the consequent escalation in the Persian Gulf, could be the result of a misreading of the intelligence apparatuses of both countries, according to a new report cited by the Wall Street Journal. Reports from the Middle East continue to describe the situation as tense as indeed [...]
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The group that calls itself the Islamic State, a few days after the proclamation of another new overseas province in northern India, announced the establishment of a new overseas province in Pakistan. Until recently, Islamic State operations in Asia were conducted under the banner of the Islamic State - Khorasan Province, or [...]
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The Islamic State has announced the establishment of a new overseas province in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. The announcement was made over the weekend by Amaq, the Islamic State news agency. According to the press release, the Islamic State (also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) has appointed the new province [...]
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Iran is capable of destroying the US aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln with a single missile, which yesterday crossed the Suez Canal after setting sail for a mission in the Middle East. This was stated by Ayatollah Yousef Tabatabai-Nejad, representative of the province of Isfahan in the Assembly of Experts of the Islamic Republic. "Their ship, which cost billions of [...]
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The sudden US decision to deploy a significant military component in the Middle East came in response to intelligence information given to Washington by Israeli officials. The United States announced that the USS Abraham Lincoln had received instructions to navigate the Middle East. The aircraft carrier is sailing alongside a cruiser [...]
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The Italian 007 organized yesterday the Bridge conference (Bringing radicalized individuals to disengage). A unique conference of its kind as it involved about thirty foreign countries and dealt with the strategies to be put in place to counter and prevent terrorist attacks. Present the representatives of the secret services of the so-called Paris Group (Germany, Austria, Belgium, [...]
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Emiliano Fittipaldi on l'Espresso wrote a really interesting editorial that brings to light a truly disturbing background. The investigations are carried out by the Rome prosecutor's office. We are talking about thousands of photographs, private chats, audio voices and sensitive data intercepted by our secret services released to a private Calabrian company which kept them in a [...]
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The CIA officially arrives on Instagram, with the blue check to confirm the authenticity of the profile. In about twenty-four hours the account has exceeded 10 thousand followers. In the bulletin board, for now, there is only one photo that portrays a typical work desk of an agent with the caption that tells the normal task of a CIA agent: [...]
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A video posted online by supporters of the Sunni militant group of the Islamic State shows the suicide bombers carrying out Sunday's bloody attacks in Sri Lanka. They pose next to flags of the Islamic State. Three Catholic churches and three five-star hotels were targeted on Easter Sunday by a total [...]
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As reported by Reuters, the Turkish authorities have announced the arrest of two men believed to be intelligence officers for the United Arab Emirates; the two have already confessed to having recruited local informants. The news agency said Turkish counterintelligence officials suspect that at least one of the suspects may be involved in [...]
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Spanish authorities returned the material that had been stolen from the North Korean embassy in Madrid by a group of assailants last February. The unprecedented attack took place on the afternoon of February 22 in a quiet neighborhood in the north of Madrid, where the North Korean embassy is located. Ten assailants, all [...]
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The manipulation of social media by foreign governments is already underway in Canada before the October elections. This was reported by the country's intelligence agency. The report "Update 2019: cyber threats to Canada's democratic process" published by the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), Canada's national communications interception agency reports the interference [...]
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Facebook has announced that it has deleted from the network about 3 pages, groups and accounts based in Iran, Kosovo, North Macedonia and Russia for providing incorrect information on their activities. According to the note issued by the management of the social network, no links were found between the activities indicated in the respective profiles and [...]
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Documents acquired by retreating Islamic State fighters in Syria show that the militant group is reportedly planning a series of high-profile attacks in Europe and the Middle East, using newly established sleeper cell units. The information was revealed over the weekend by the British newspaper The Sunday Times. The newspaper […]
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The Trump administration intends to allocate approximately $ 2020 billion in cybersecurity in 17,4 to be distributed among federal agencies and central government institutions. Most of these funds, in fact, will go to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security. The White House published on Monday an initial breakdown of the chapters [...]
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A group of North Korean dissidents allegedly involved in the raid on the North Korean embassy in Madrid on 22 February. This was reported by some reports from Western spy agencies, including the Central Intelligence Agency. The group would be the “Cheollima Civil Defense”, also known as the free Joseon. The group is considered to be the first organization [...]
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According to a new report released by the Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service (EFIS), Russian spy agencies are using front companies to buy directions that contain the contact details of US government employees. The contact details, contained in the directories of multiple pages of members of the Congress staff [...]
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The US has warned Germany that it will stop sharing intelligence information between the two countries if Chinese telecom giant Huawei receives a contract to build the 5G network in Germany. The company, Huawei Technologies, is one of the largest privately held telecommunications hardware companies in the world. In the [...]
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According to the former president of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, the government of Pakistan and the Indian government have hired terrorist groups to attack India. Musharraf, 75, took power in Pakistan in 1999 through a coup d'état supported by the country's military leadership. The four-star army general ruled as the tenth president of the [...]
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About 300 contractors linked to Russian military intelligence (GRU) have allegedly supported General Haftar in his recent actions in southern Libya. The news appeared in The Telegraph. Russian support would have come through the private company, known as the Wagner Group, which would have supplied the Libyan army with artillery, tanks, drones and ammunition. [...]
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According to a documentary published by Al Jazeera, the body of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi was allegedly burned in an oven located in the house of the Saudi consul in Istanbul. The documentary is based on information obtained by Turkish investigators, who according to Al Jazeera believe that the pieces of Khashoggi's body were taken to the home of [...]
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A recent article in the Washington Post provided new details on the operation that the US Cyber Command (the Pentagon command, strongly linked to the NSA, deputy to cyber warfare) has carried out against the Russian Internet Research Agency (IRA). The IRA, a company based in St. Petersburg, also known to many as a "troll factory", [...]
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The Swedish prosecutor in Stockholm confirmed the news, released by media reports, of the second arrest for espionage. The arrest came after a man was arrested in the Swedish capital on Tuesday, allegedly also accused of spying on behalf of Russia. As reported by intelNews, a man was arrested [...]
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Germany's largest far-right party, the Alternative for Germany, has won a lawsuit against the country's internal intelligence agency which, following the ruling, will no longer be able to gather information on the group's activities. The party, known by the German initials AfD representing Alternative für Deutschland, was founded [...]
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A group of hackers allegedly targeted European democratic institutions including think-tanks and nonprofits, ahead of the expected European parliamentary elections in May, Microsoft reported. On February 19, the IT company specified that a group called Strontium has targeted e-mail accounts of over 100 people [...]
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The former director of the powerful Pakistani intelligence agency was stripped of his military pension and associated benefits after publishing a controversial intelligence book with his Indian counterpart. Lieutenant General Asad Durrani was Director General of the Pakistan Military Intelligence Directorate between 1988 and 1989. Since 1990 […]
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According to an expert from Harvard University, the role of women within the Islamic State is growing, while the Sunni militant group is turning into a clandestine organization. Since its rapid expansion in Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State has promoted a strict segregation between men and women. Initially the [...]
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A high-ranking intelligence adviser to late Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi, Abdullah al-Senussi, reportedly told French investigators that the Libyan government "donated" $ 8 million to former French president Nicolas Sarkozy for the election campaign 2007 An accusation harshly denied by Sarkozy himself: "During a 20-minute television interview, Sarkozy described [...]
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A growing number of people are in pre-trial detention in Lithuania: "the Baltic state is continuing to investigate an alleged Russian espionage association, very active in the country". On Tuesday, government prosecutors asked for an eight-year prison sentence for Roman Sheshel, accused of giving confidential information [...]
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A senior counterintelligence officer from the Belgian external intelligence service is under house arrest on charges of sharing classified documents with Russian spies. A Belgian newspaper reports it. Furthermore, the head of the agency's counter-intelligence department has been barred from his office while an internal investigation is underway into allegations of illegally [...]
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The intelligence site Site reports that ISIS fanatics are asking the so-called lone wolves to carry out attacks in France. For the propaganda they used a digitally manipulated image of the Eiffel Tower, engulfed in flames. The image also shows the black and white flag of the Islamic State flying from the iconic landmark, while another attack [...]
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The largest Maltese bank had to close the branches of its branches across the island, blocking all operations and online accounts Massive hacker attack in Malta against Bank of Valletta. This was communicated in a note by the same bank that claimed to have suffered an IT intrusion with access [...]
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ISIS leaders have set aside millions of pounds to finance a new wave of attacks on Britain and the West - as the cult of death is on the verge of fading. The news is reported by The Sun. UN experts believe that the group has the availability of at least [...]
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Angela Merkel has officially inaugurated the headquarters of the largest spy agency in the world. Last Friday, the Chancellor led the public ceremony that marked the opening of the Zentrale des Bundesnachrichtendienstes, which is the new headquarters of the Federal Intelligence Service of Germany. Known by the initials BND, the agency operates as a primary service [...]
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According to a report released in the German media, the diplomatic agency of the European Union warned that "hundreds of spies" from various foreign countries are very active diplomatic officials in Belgium. The report appeared last weekend in the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag, which cited a report from the European External Action Service [...]
read moreNew reports from some Russian sites are reporting that a third man with a fake name is involved in the affair of former spy Sergei Skripal in England last year. Skripal, a former military intelligence officer, had settled in the English city of Salisbury in 2010, after spending several years in a Russian prison on charges of [...]
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According to a report released this week by Amnesty International, weapons supplied to the Saudi and Emirati governments by the United States and other Western nations, including machine guns, mortars and even armored vehicles, are being deliberately diverted to Sunni militia groups in Yemen. Among them are three militias that are known to be [...]
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The Palermo court allegedly called upon two officers of the Sudanese security services to testify to ascertain the identity of the Eritrean in prison, accused of being a trafficker in human beings and who could instead be the victim of a mistaken identity. The Guardian reports the Eritrean, arrested in 2016 in Khartoum in a joint operation of the services [...]
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According to two separate investigations, the weapons provided by the United States and other Western nations to the Saudi and Emirati governments end up in the hands of Al Qaeda-linked Sunni militias in Yemen. The weapons are supplied to the armed forces of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates by the West, with the understanding that they will be used in the war [...]
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The government of Israel has increased the period in which documents belonging to intelligence and security agencies can remain secret to 90 years, extending them by 20 years. Until last month, government documents produced by Israeli intelligence agencies, such as its external spy organization, Mossad, or its [...]
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A security company founded by Erik Prince, the former head of the private military company Blackwater, has announced an agreement with the Chinese state to operate a training center in the largely Muslim province of Xinjiang. In the months following the US invasion of Iraq, Blackwater was hired by the State Department [...]
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Yellow Uranium Cake Police in Japan are studying how a man was able to put uranium up for sale through an online auction site run by Yahoo !, an Internet service provider based in California. Japanese news agencies reported Friday that the alleged product was exhibited inside [...]
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Yesterday, Pakistan's federal investigation agency said it dismantled "an international spy network" in an operation that saw the arrest of at least five intelligence officers working for foreign interests. According to The News International, Pakistan's largest English-language newspaper, the arrests were made at the beginning of [...]
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Morton Sobell, the American radar engineer who in 101 was convicted of conspiracy together with Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in one of the most important espionage cases of the Cold War, dies at 1951. His death was announced yesterday by his son, Mark, who specified that his father's death occurred on [...]
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The State Police, delegated by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Catania, has notified an order of precautionary custody in prison against the 32-year-old citizen of Catania Giuseppe D´IGNOTI, for the crime of condoning the crime of terrorism using telematic tools . The provision was issued by the GIP of the Court of Catania, upon request [...]
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According to the NewYork Times, it was a "security illusion" that caused the deaths of four US service members operating in northern Syria last week after a suicide bomber attacked a restaurant, killing at least 19. 'deadly attack took place in Manbij, a small town with a Kurdish majority near the [...]
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(by Salvatore Calleri and Pier Paolo Santi) One of the first rules in Intelligence consists in the targeted individualization of the internal and external enemy. Our country has a particularly dangerous and versatile internal enemy, with the potential to be a portal, a platform for external enemies represented by foreign organized crime, jihadist terrorists and even intelligence [...]
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José Manuel Villarejo, a Spanish judge, has expanded an investigation into an illegal network that has been spying on millions of politicians, business executives, journalists and judges for over 20 years, in exchange for payments from wealthy clients. At the center of the case is José Manuel Villarejo, 67, a former police chief arrested in November of [...]
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California - The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrested two men of Iranian descent accused of operating as deep cover spies for Iran. Documents filed in a federal court in Washington refer to the men as Majid Ghorbani, 59, and Ahmadreza Mohammadi Doostdar, 38. Both have American citizenship and are […]
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According to "Reuters", last fall, after a group of militants aligned with Tehran fired mortar rounds in an area of Baghdad that houses the US embassy, the White House national security team he asked the Pentagon to provide him with options for striking Iran. Citing US officials [...]
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The Navy of the Russian Federation plans to operate more than 30 Poseidon nuclear submarine drones in the near future. This was reported by the news agency "Tass", to which a source inside the national industrial complex released some statements today. "Two submarines equipped with Poseidon drones will enter service with the [...]
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On the Twitter profile of the Russian embassy in London it is clearly written that the evidence of the Skripal case has been destroyed by the British authorities. The reference is to the dismantling of part of Sergey Skripal's home in Salisbury, announced in recent days by the British security forces. "The evidence on Salisbury poisoning is systematically [...]
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Paul Whelan, a former American marine accused of espionage in Russia, is a citizen of at least three other countries, namely Canada, Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland. Whelan, 48, was arrested by the Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia on December 28 at the Metropol, while staying in a five-star hotel in downtown [...]
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Three Venezuelans, in possession of machine guns and explosives, were arrested on the Caribbean coast of Colombia. According to the Colombian authorities, the three were planning to kill President Iván Duque. The news was made known last December 29 with a video posted on Twitter by the foreign minister of Colombia, [...]
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The FSB - the Russian security services heirs of the KGB - announced on December 28 that it had arrested Paul Whelan, an American citizen suspected of espionage and of having opened a criminal case against him, without however providing details on the nature of his alleged spying activities in the country. The news […]
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After the warning from the US State Department, the Barcelona police have stepped up security checks at some of the most recognizable monuments of the Spanish city. The surprise warning came in the form of a post on the popular Twitter social network on Sunday 23 December. In the tweet, the State Department [...]
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After the chaotic scenes at the British Gatwick Airport, which was closed for three days due to reports of drone sightings, images released by the Islamic State appear on social media showing drones carrying packages to large western cities. The images, which appear to be counterfeit, have rekindled concerns that the [...]
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The French intelligence services are analyzing the possible Russian involvement on social media and other platforms in the campaign aimed at amplifying the "yellow vests" movement. Known in French as "Le mouvement des gilets jaunes", the campaign began online in May this year as a popular protest against rising fuel prices and [...]
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A growing number of bomb attack threats have resulted in hundreds of evacuations and closures of private buildings, transport hubs and offices in four countries, causing confusion and in some cases panic. The hundreds of threats that arrived on Thursday against companies, schools, hospitals and communications companies in the United States, Canada, [...]
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According to a cybersecurity company and the European Union, Russia "would have prepared the way" for the seizure of the Ukrainian navy ships, launching a major cyber attack on government sites and disinformation to public opinion. A private cybersecurity company claimed that Moscow would launch a series of cyber attacks against servers [...]
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The terrorist attack in the French city of Strasbourg last December 11 highlights the weakness and the security problems of Europe in the face of the probable escalation of terrorist attacks of Islamic origin
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The CIA entrusts responsibility for the operations to a woman, the first time in 70 years of history
The CIA has made public the name of the head of operations, Elizabeth Kimber, a veteran of 34 years at the Agency will become the first woman to lead the most important sector of the CIA. Directorate of operations officers, formerly known as the National Clandestine Service, spend their careers recruiting foreign agents and conducting covert operations in [...]
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A former Russian police officer, who is serving a prison sentence in Russia for spying for the United States Central Intelligence Agency, wrote an open letter to President Donald Trump, asking to be released. Yevgeny A. Chistov was arrested by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) in 2014 on charges [...]
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The Islamic State is quickly returning to its rebel roots, as observers in Iraq and Syria warn they are detecting a revival of the group, according to a report published by the US Department of Defense. It's been four years since the Islamic State - later known as the Islamic State of Iraq and [...]
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The US government plans to impose greater restrictions on visas and checks on Chinese citizens who study at American universities, as they are suspected of espionage. The news emerged after the dreaded decision by US President Donald Trump's administration to ban all Chinese citizens from studying at American universities. On [...]
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The director of the British Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, spoke of the new "fourth generation of espionage", needed to combat the "threats of the hybrid age". Alex Younger, 55, is an intelligence officer who joined MI6 in 1991 after serving in the British Army. He held the position of head of global operations, [...]
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Trump: "there is no smoking gun", bin Salman is a personal friend of mine According to a classified report produced by the Central Intelligence Agency, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has sent at least eleven text messages to the man in charge of the 15-member team who shot journalist Jamal Khashoggi to death. The CIA report is [...]
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Today, Sunni Islamic militants in the world have quadrupled compared to September 11, 2001, despite 20 years of war by the United States and its allies. Washington launched the "global war on terror" in the aftermath of the 11/XNUMX attacks by al-Qaeda. In the following years, American and Western troops undertook [...]
read moreThe amount of poison used in Britain for the attack on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal could kill "thousands of people". This was stated by investigators on a British television program. Skripal, a former military intelligence officer, was transferred to the English city of Salisbury in 2010, after spending several years in a Russian prison for espionage […]
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Igor Korobov, the head of GRU, Russian military intelligence, died at the age of 62 "from a long and serious illness". The news was given by a spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry in Ria Novosti. Korobov, says the Defense, would have died "due to a long and serious illness". According to Meduza, the [...]
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Norway's supreme legislative body is considering a bill that offers immunity from prosecution to intelligence officials and whistleblowers who are authorized by the country's intelligence service to conduct espionage activities. The bill was proposed on behalf of the Norwegian Defense Ministry, which oversees operations [...]
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Twenty-five members of the European Union have agreed to establish an academy for joint intelligence training. An initiative seen as a concrete effort to deepen cooperation in European security following Brexit. The announcement came just hours after the main EU heads of state spoke in favor of the creation of a defense force [...]
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War games in the Gaza Strip, massacre of Palestinians. Israel fails to install advanced surveillance tool, discovered by Hamas troops According to Palestinian sources, an undercover Israeli team was installing an advanced surveillance system when they had a firefight with Hamas troops on 11 November. . I [...]
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The number of foreign Islamic State fighters entering the Philippines is growing and the momentum they generate among local Islamic groups could push them to declare a new caliphate. The British newspaper The Guardian quoted "a senior intelligence official" as saying that between 40 and 100 foreign fighters joined [...]
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A serum to convince prisoners to tell the whole truth. This is what emerged from the documents of a commission of inquiry on the US CIA that over the years would have launched a program to produce a serum to inoculate prisoners thanks to complacent doctors and in defiance of their Hippocratic oath. The CIA was forced [...]
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According to a Dutch intelligence report, Islamic state cells are using Turkey as a strategic base in which to recover, rebuild and launch an underground war in Europe. This assessment is contained in a report released Monday by the Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service, known as the AIVD. The document, available in Dutch on the AIVD website, [...]
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The Danish government recalled the Iranian ambassador and accused the intelligence services of the Islamic Republic of organizing an operation to assassinate an individual on Danish soil. Danish government officials also said that Copenhagen will seek to impose further economic and diplomatic sanctions on Tehran, in coordination with the European Union. The accusations against [...]
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Sleeper cells belonging to various terrorist organizations exist in more than 60 countries, including Russia, head of Russia's Anti-Terror Center Vladimir Grigoryev said at a press conference. According to Grigoryev, these sleeper cells are young militants who return to their native countries from regions where armed conflicts rage. However, the police have [...]
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A British intelligence report MI6 states that it was aware of the Saudi government's plot to kidnap Khashoggi. British newspaper The Sunday Express claims to have evidence from "high-ranking intelligence sources" that MI6 was in possession of intercepts of communications containing conversations about Khashoggi. The conversations were between [...]
read moreGuy Parmelin, head of the Swiss Federal Department of Defense, and Jean-Philippe Gaudin, director of the Federal Information Service of the Confederation (NDB), told the press last week that Russian espionage activity in Switzerland has increased significantly. Gaudin refused to provide further details and the numbers of Moscow agents in [...]
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The Iranian government is allegedly smuggling ballistic missile parts into Lebanon, where they are secretly stored in clandestine factories run by the Shiite militant group Hezbollah, according to a former Israeli intelligence official. For several months, the international news agency Reuters has claimed that Tehran would transport short-range ballistic missiles to secret bases controlled by the militias [...]
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Il Fatto Quotidiano has published an article that explains how the story of Jamal Khashoggi is, in some way, linked to the Italian company “Hacking Team”. The Italian company has invented software that can spy on computers, tablets and smartphones. The Washington Post on 12 October last wrote that "in the months preceding the [...]
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Officials from the Czech Republic reported that the country's espionage agency has directed an operation in several countries aimed at neutralizing a cyberespionage network run by the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. Earlier last week, the Security Information Service (BIS), the Czech Republic's main national intelligence agency, issued a statement stating […]
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According to a report by the British government, the so-called "Cyber Caliphate" is one of many apparently non-state but actually run by the Russian state. The group, believed to be the online hacker wing of the Islamic State, first appeared in early 2014, claiming to operate as the online wing of the Islamic State of Iraq and [...]
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The Iraqi Security Information Center announced that Iraqi security forces have dismantled a terrorist cell composed of thirteen members operating in the city of Mosul, a former stronghold of the Islamic State (IS) in the north of the country. The operation, made possible thanks to intelligence information and the cooperation of local residents, is [...]
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The Israeli military released a video clip and photos on Thursday showing Hezbollah's construction of missile sites. The images were distributed minutes after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to the United Nations General Assembly. "In Lebanon, Iran is directing Hezbollah to build secret sites [...]
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Danish police announced the arrest of two men who attempted to procure unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) on behalf of the Islamic State in Syria. In a press statement released on Wednesday, the Danish state police said they worked closely with the Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) […]
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Gina Hasplel, director of the US "Central Intelligence Agency," announced in her first public appearance that the CIA will return to traditional spying against foreign states and focus less on counterterrorism and non-state actors. Gina Haspel joined the CIA in 1985. She grew up professionally in various roles, [...]
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Assad Ahmad Barakat, a Lebanese citizen, believed to be one of the greatest international financiers for the Shia group Hezbollah, was arrested by the Brazilian police. Assad Ahmad Barakat, was born in Lebanon but in the mid-80s, while the bloody civil war was underway, he fled to Paraguay where he started an import-export business until he got [...]
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The Labor Party leadership in Britain reacted with disdain to the content of in a new book where the author claimed that Michael Foot, who led the party in the early 80s, was a paying agent for the Soviet KGB. Foot, a loyal and staunch representative of the post-war British left, was a member of [...]
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Western intelligence agencies thwarted a plot involving two Russian hackers who intended to go to a laboratory that investigates nuclear and biological weapons to hack computer systems and steal digital information. According to reports from the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad and the Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger, the two men [...]
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In the first half of 2018, two thirds of e-mail traffic was “untouched”. On the other hand, one in three violations resulted in dismissal. Two studies have led to this evaluation. The first is that of the Email Threat Report on a sample of over half a billion email messages. Two thirds of this traffic [...]
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According to an online security company, Islamic State supporters, most of them Persians, were spied on by the Iranian government through two smartphone applications containing, one, images of ISIS-themed wallpapers that users could download on their devices, the other, a counterfeit version of the Firat News application [...]
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A Russian-made device allegedly caused mysterious ills to more than two dozen American diplomats in Cuba and China, according to US government officials. Since September last year, Washington has recalled most of its staff from its embassy in Havana and at least two other diplomats [...]
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Russia attempted to intercept broadcasts from a Franco-Italian satellite used by the armed forces of both nations for secure communications, French Defense Minister Florence Parly said, describing the move as an "act of espionage." In a speech outlining French space policy for the next few years, Parly [...]
read moreSergei Skripal, the Russian double agent who was poisoned with a nerve agent of military origin in England earlier this year, also worked for Spanish intelligence. Skripal, a former military intelligence officer who worked as a spy for Britain in the early 2000s, had kept a low profile while living in the [...]
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After the publication of a report on security by the Czech newspaper "Mlada Fronta Dnes", Eastern European security agencies have expressed concern about the increase in far-right paramilitary groups whose members appear to possess heavy weapons and in some cases of armored vehicles and tanks. The report, prepared by Security [...]
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But Arndt von Loringhoven, NATO's assistant secretary general of intelligence for intelligence and security, spoke at a security conference hosted by the Israeli college IDC Herzliya said that while the Islamic state loses ground, Al Qaeda is trying to regain its primacy over international militancy, thus foreseeing a potential increase in risk [...]
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Police in Norway and the Netherlands have initiated formal investigations into the whereabouts of a Dutch cybersecurity expert and senior WikiLeaks associate disappeared without a trace on 20 August. Arjen Kamphuis, a 47-year-old online privacy expert, is best known for his book "Security for Journalists", which advises [...]
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The spokesperson for the Tripoli-based International Telecommunications Company said Facebook went down due to a malfunction of the international provider. Similarly, a Libya Telecom and Technology (LTT) official told reporters that Facebook has not been blocked but has encountered a technical error, and that they are contacting the [...]
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Germany has abandoned the criminal case against the second-in-command of Swiss intelligence, accused by Berlin of having authorized an espionage operation against the German tax collection service. A year ago, Germany launched an unprecedented investigation into three senior officials of the Swiss intelligence agency, the Federal Intelligence Service (NDB). [...]
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According to the scientist who led the investigation into the matter, some sophisticated devices that emit microradiations were most likely responsible for the disturbances of American diplomats in Cuba and China. In September 2017, Washington recalled most of its staff to the embassy in Havana and issued a [...]
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US espionage reported that Chinese intelligence agencies would use fictional LinkedIn accounts to try to recruit Americans who have access to government and trade secrets. William Evanina, the head of US counterintelligence, told Reuters that intelligence and law enforcement officials have already communicated to LinkedIn, […]
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Eight senior officials from Malaysia's external intelligence agency, including its former director, were arrested on suspicion of stealing more than $ 16 million from government coffers. The arrests represent a dramatic extension of the anti-corruption campaign that has gripped the Asian nation since it was launched in May this year. The [...]
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China has launched a platform, which includes a mobile app, which allows the public to report "rumors online" and even use artificial intelligence to identify false reports. At the same time, Beijing breaks down socially destabilizing content. The launch of the platform comes as Beijing intensifies efforts to oversee the Internet, especially the social media used [...]
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Germany yesterday announced the birth of a new agency, the result of a joint project between the Ministries of Interior and Defense, to finance research on cyber security and end its dependence on digital technologies of the United States, China and from other countries. Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said [...]
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The government of Afghanistan is facing one of its worst crises since the end of the Taliban reign in 2001. After the dramatic escalation of attacks on Afghan government installations by Taliban and Islamic State forces, which resulted in dozens of victims throughout the Central Asian country, this [...]
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France advised, in an August 20 communication addressed to its diplomats and foreign ministry officials, to indefinitely postpone all non-essential travel to Iran, referring to a thwarted attack on a demonstration - held by a group of the Iranian opposition in exile near Paris to which [...]
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According to the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar, a delegation of senior US government officials secretly met with the heads of Syrian intelligence agencies in an attempt to define the terms of a possible agreement between Washington and Damascus. Relations between the United States and Syria have been strained since the end of the years [...]
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(by Damiano Belli, Ambienthesis CEO) Pursuing the ultimate goal of reducing environmental pollution and wasting resources and energy, the shared intention of maximizing the recovery and recycling of materials and sources is recorded throughout the world energetic. “The situation is worrying and needs to be addressed urgently. We all agreed on this. But it's a [...]
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According to some sources, the CIA whistleblowers, whom the United States has relied on in order to steal the strategies and tactics used by Moscow, in recent months, have not spoken. For many years, US intelligence agencies have been building networks of Russian whistleblowers. These are officials placed in leading positions within [...]
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According to US intelligence reports, Russia is preparing to search for the nuclear-powered missile that disappeared during a test several months ago. For US intelligence, it would be the same missile mentioned by Russian President Vladimir Putin during his annual state of the union speech in Moscow, last March 1, [...]
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The fighters and two military sources reported that rebels in northern Chad attacked government forces on the Libyan border this week. The government denied what happened. A nascent rebel movement, the Military Council of the Command for the Salvation of the Republic (CCMSR), says it wants to depose President Idriss Deby who, [...]
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(by Giovanni Bozzetti- Pres Ambienthesis) Overcoming the global environmental challenges that await us, more and more foreign countries are looking to ours today. It may sound strange to imagine Italy as a model of sustainable entrepreneurship and environmentally conscious development, when from Turin to Padua, passing through Milan, our cities are saturated with smog and dangerously [...]
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A federal judge sentenced former US security officer Reality Winner to more than five years in prison after admitting he gave a media report on Russian meddling in US elections. Winner, 26, who has already spent nearly two years in prison, pleaded guilty to [...]
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A former director of Germany's intelligence service warned Western officials to stop sharing information with the government of Austria due to its alleged proximity to the Kremlin. August Hanning was the head of the German federal intelligence service, known as the BND, from 1998 to 2005. He continued to serve as an official […]
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A highly radioactive device used by an energy company has disappeared in Malaysia, causing a nationwide emergency for fear that it may have been stolen by a militant group. According to the Straits Times newspaper of Malaysia, a radioactive dispersion device (RDD), used for industrial radiography of oil and gas supplies, has disappeared […]
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The US authorities have announced the arrests of two men accused of spying on American soil on behalf of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The men were reportedly arrested on August 9, but information about them was only released on Monday by the United States Department of Justice. In a press release published [...]
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Japan has released some secret documents from 1942 relating to a Tokyo spy center led by Richard Sorge, a German who spied for the former Soviet Union and is often referred to as invaluable help for Moscow to win World War II. The documents describe the efforts made by the Japanese government, in time [...]
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Relations between the EU and the UK hit a new all-time low last week. The reason the European Council declined to comment is claims that British spy agencies spied on Brexit negotiators in Brussels. Consultations between the two sides have progressed to [...]
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An online fundraising campaign is seeking the release of more than 4.000 pages of documents relating to a controversial mind control program developed by the US Central Intelligence Agency. The project, called MKNAOMI / MKULTRA preserved in the archives of the United States government, is the result of a joint effort by the CIA [...]
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The Islamic State has as many as 30.000 members engaged in Iraq and Syria, according to a United Nations report. Last month, the Iraqi government announced that the war against the group, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), had been won. The statement was taken up by the President of the States [...]
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In the next few days, some hackers are reportedly engaged in preparing an "empty ATM" attack, to be carried out on a global scale. According to reports from "CNN", the alarm was raised by the FBI, according to which cybercriminals could act in the coming weekend when the reaction capacity of banking institutions is slowed down. The timing was also confirmed [...]
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According to the Canadian government, the two brothers, whose Russian parents fraudulently acquired Canadian citizenship before being arrested for espionage, are not eligible for Canadian citizenship. Tim and Alex Vavilov are the children of Donald Heathfield and Tracey Foley, a married couple arrested in 2010 under the GHOST STORIES operation, a [...]
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Here are the first images of the Israeli submarine barrier designed to block the Gaza Strip. The barrier, which is located in Zikim beach, will extend for 200 meters along the Mediterranean sea, separating Gaza from Israel and is structured in three levels, an underwater base; a concrete platform 50 meters deep [...]
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Montenegro's government prosecutors claim that a former US Central Intelligence Agency officer helped pro-Russian conspirators organize a coup in 2016. Their goal was to kill then Prime Minister Milo Dukanović. unleash a pro-Russian coup in the country to prevent its entry [...]
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Hanoi authorities arrested one of the country's most powerful security officials, suspected of helping a business magnate and, a former intelligence agent, flee abroad. The move, "unprecedented" in modern Vietnamese history, marks an expansion of the anti-corruption campaign that began in 2016 and which is now affecting [...]
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According to media reports, the German authorities yesterday announced the arrest of a German citizen accused of spying on a mosque on behalf of a "Jordanian agency". The man, "Alexander B." - 33 years,. he was arrested on Tuesday by agents of the German internal intelligence office, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV). The standards [...]
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Yemeni militias backed by Saudi Arabia, the United States and the UAE would be paying al-Qaeda's allied factions to refrain from fighting and recruiting al-Qaeda members to fight Shia rebels. Since 2015, when the civil war broke out in Yemen, the United States, together with its Arab allies, the Emirates [...]
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A woman of Russian nationality who worked at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow was fired in 2017 on suspicion of providing information to Russia. The British newspaper The Guardian, which reported the story last week, did not provide the identity of the Russian woman. But he said he [...]
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One of Syria's leading pro-government newspapers reported that Israel was behind the explosion of a bomb in Hama province that killed a scientist working for the country's missile program. Reportedly, Aziz Azbar was research director at the Syrian Scientific Studies and Research Center, known as [...]
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According to local media reports, the Islamic State in Syria has executed one of the numerous hostages captured in the Syrian city of the Sweida government during the attack last week. Dozens of people have been killed since July 25 in various attacks coordinated by militants of the Islamic State who invaded villages and put [...]
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Last May, while the President of the Republic Mattarella gave his peremptory "no" to the candidacy of Paolo Savona as Minister of the Economy, more than 400 new accounts were created on Twitter in a few minutes.
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Trade war, cyberwarfare and regional domination are the new frontier in the global confrontation between the US and China. A question and answer between the two superpowers trying to move like a mirror on the international chessboard. The country of the Dragon is increasingly present in Latin America, the country of eagles, on the other hand, wants to increase its presence in the Indian Ocean and [...]
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Facebook has stated that a "race to defend itself against bad actors" is underway. The social media giant said that strong investments are underway in the security sector, created with the aim of defending the platform and preventing it from being used to subvert or influence the process [...]
read moreRadical change of strategy. US diplomatic officials organized secret meetings with Taliban leaders without the presence of the Afghan government. For over a decade, the Taliban have refused to negotiate with the Afghan government, which they view as a Washington-controlled puppet regime. Instead, they tried to speak directly with the United States, without [...]
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A cyber hacker working with an American cybersecurity company reported the discovery of a "highly active" Iranian cyber espionage group whose vast target list consists mainly of large organizations and companies in the Middle East. The computer security company Symantec, creator of Norton antivirus software, which has [...]
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US President Donald Trump wants a new military "space force", but Congress still disagrees. The Senate and the House have met to authorize the defense to spend $ 716 billion, funding necessary to lay the foundations for a sixth armed force dedicated to space. This is the [...]
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The Postal and Communications Police has received numerous reports in recent days relating to the receipt of strange e-mails, also in English, which in the subject contain our e-mail address and our password, current or past and in the message inform that, precisely thanks to the knowledge of our password, the sender, hidden or with [...]
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Russia has successfully tested the super-heavy thermonuclear missile RS-28 Sarmat. The Russian Defense Ministry has released images of the missile which would be able to wipe out areas the size of Texas and France. The RS-28 Sarmat missiles can be armed with 24 Avangard, hypersonic gliders, each of which is capable of carrying the [...]
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The tones between Washington and Tehran are getting harder. In recent days, according to reports from the Reuters news agency, senior officials of the American administration had launched a massive media offensive against the Iranian government with the aim of fomenting unrest in the Islamic Republic. The campaign, according to Reuters, intends to "work in concert" with the thrust [...]
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Alleged Russian agent Maria Butina allegedly had high-ranking contacts in Washington. He allegedly took part in the 2015 meetings between a Russian official and two senior officials from the US Federal Reserve and Treasury Department. The meetings involved Stanley Fischer, vice president of the Fed at the time, and Nathan Sheets, then [...]
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Two Palestinian scientists were found dead in an apartment in Algeria, Palestinian media reported. The circumstances surrounding their death are still unclear. It is said that the two were originally from Khan Younis, in the Gaza Strip. According to reports, the Palestinian embassy in Algeria told the family of one of the [...]
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Very hot Mediterranean, not only at sea but also in the skies. We are talking about the "shadow" missions in Libya and Tunisia by the US special forces. The proof has already been given by PRP Channel which reported suspicious activity last March. A US Fairchild C-26 (multi-mission surveillance / transport) had taken off from Misrata with destination [...]
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