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Category: espionage

  • US Declassifies Information on JUMPSEAT Spy Satellites

    US Declassifies Information on JUMPSEAT Spy Satellites The US National Reconnaissance Office has declassified information about a fleet of spy satellites operating between 1971 and 2006. I’m actually impressed to see a declassification only two decades after decommission. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier

  • AI as Cyberattacker

    AI as Cyberattacker From Anthropic: In mid-September 2025, we detected suspicious activity that later investigation determined to be a highly sophisticated espionage campaign. The attackers used AI’s “agentic” capabilities to an unprecedented degree­—using AI not just as an advisor, but to execute the cyberattacks themselves. The threat actor—­whom we assess with high confidence was a…

  • First Sentencing in Scheme to Help North Koreans Infiltrate US Companies

    First Sentencing in Scheme to Help North Koreans Infiltrate US Companies An Arizona woman was sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in prison for her role helping North Korean workers infiltrate US companies by pretending to be US workers. From an article: According to court documents, Chapman hosted the North Korean IT workers’ computers in her own…

  • Tradecraft in the Information Age

    Tradecraft in the Information Age Long article on the difficulty (impossibility?) of human spying in the age of ubiquitous digital surveillance. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier

  • Silk Typhoon Hackers Indicted

    Silk Typhoon Hackers Indicted Lots of interesting details in the story: The US Department of Justice on Wednesday announced the indictment of 12 Chinese individuals accused of more than a decade of hacker intrusions around the world, including eight staffers for the contractor i-Soon, two officials at China’s Ministry of Public Security who allegedly worked…

  • NSO Group Spies on People on Behalf of Governments

    NSO Group Spies on People on Behalf of Governments The Israeli company NSO Group sells Pegasus spyware to countries around the world (including countries like Saudi Arabia, UAE, India, Mexico, Morocco and Rwanda). We assumed that those countries use the spyware themselves. Now we’ve learned that that’s not true: that NSO Group employees operate the…