Army Officials Alerted Against Fake Social Media Profiles of ISI Agents

Investigations revealed that over 325 people were contacted using fake social media accounts within just two weeksAn alert by central security agencies to the police headquarters of Punjab said that some female Pakistani Intelligence Operatives (PIO) are targeting officials of the Indian Army, Navy and Air Force using fake social media profiles. The Punjab Director General of Police (DGP)

September 3, 2023
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Meta’s ‘Biggest Single Takedown’ Aimed At Chinese Influence Campaign Removed Close To 8000 Facebook Accounts

Washington: Meta’s ‘biggest single takedown’ aimed at the Chinese Influence Campaign, resulted in the removal of 7,704 Facebook accounts, 954 Facebook pages, 15 Facebook groups and 15 Instagram accounts tied to the Chinese campaign, as per The New York Times.An article was published on February 27 claiming that the United States was behind the bombing of the Nord Stream underwater pipelines in

September 1, 2023
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China, Russia Aiming To Steal Technologies From US Space Companies: US Counterintelligence Officials

Washington: According to a recent warning from US counterintelligence officials, Chinese and Russian spy agencies are focusing on private US-based space enterprises in an effort to obtain cutting-edge technologies while impeding American advancements, Voice of America (VOA) reported.The two-page advisory, which was released by the FBI, the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, and the

August 19, 2023
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Karnataka HC Refuses To Quash TEJAS Data Theft Case Against 27-Year-Old Aerospace Engineer

“Necessity to regulate the usage of dark web has become the need of the hour”Observing that instances of theft of secret defence data and sale of stolen data on the dark web has become worrisome for nations, the High Court of Karnataka has refused to quash a criminal case registered against an aerospace engineer for allegedly stealing sensitive data on Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) program and

August 15, 2023
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China Hacked Japan’s Military Networks

The NSA discovered the intrusion in 2020—we don’t know how—and alerted the Japanese. The Washington Post has the story:

The hackers had deep, persistent access and appeared to be after anything they could get their hands on—plans, capabilities, assessments of military shortcomings, according to three former senior U.S. officials, who were among a dozen current and former U.S. and Japanese officials interviewed, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity.

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The 2020 penetration was so disturbing that Gen. Paul Nakasone, the head of the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command, and Matthew Pottinger, who was White House deputy national security adviser at the time, raced to Tokyo. They briefed the defense minister, who was so concerned that he arranged for them to alert the prime minister himself…

August 14, 2023
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