All news on the topic: Espionage

On Tuesday, Iranian authorities executed a man after convicting him of allegedly cooperating with and spying for Israel’s Mossad spy agency, according to the judiciary.

When Nomma Zarubina appeared before a federal judge in New York to plead guilty to federal charges, the proceeding attracted little public attention. She confessed to lying to the FBI in 2021 about her ties to Russia’s main domestic security and counterintelligence agency, FSB, and to misleading immigration authorities about her involvement in a prostitution ring in the New York area.

The FBI is offering $200,000 for information that could lead to the arrest of a former Air Force intelligence specialist charged in 2019 with spying for Iran.

Iranian authorities on Monday hanged a post-graduate student from an elite Tehran university on charges of espionage, the latest in a series of executions amid the conflict with the United States and Israel.

Federal prosecutors are attempting to revoke former U.S. diplomat Victor Manuel Rocha’s American citizenship, claiming he fraudulently acquired naturalization decades ago while covertly serving as an agent for Cuba.

The Trump administration has reduced the number of employees by more than 4,000 at some of the nation’s top law-enforcement agencies, even as it promised to crack down on crime, according to records obtained by Reuters.

Vladimir Putin is seeking to recruit young female spies as the desperate dictator looks for new agents.

Hackers linked to Russia’s military intelligence agency infiltrated thousands of Internet routers used in homes and offices around the world. They secretly tracked email traffic, website log-ons, and passwords for several months, authorities reported.

The role of one woman was to seduce Russia’s enemies and gather intelligence from them. The other woman’s role was to shield Ukraine from spies like her. Fate intertwined their paths.

Former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has expressed that her entire family is heartbroken following the allegations that her husband, Bryon Noem, sent photos of himself to fetish models.

Twenty-two people have gone on trial in France on charges of murder and other serious crimes related to a masonic lodge accused of operating hit squads.

Two individuals have been arrested, one of whom is reportedly Iranian, after attempting to enter the Faslane nuclear submarine base in Scotland, which may have been an espionage attempt.

Russian diplomatic facilities in Vienna have become the Kremlin’s largest platform for signals intelligence gathering in the West, as reported by the Financial Times.

An Iran-affiliated hacker group has claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on a medical tech company, marking what seems to be the first notable instance of Iran hacking an American company since the onset of hostilities between the countries.

A former Labour adviser, who is married to a Labour MP, is one of three men arrested on suspicion of spying for China.

As steam rises from the stove, Ma Ruilin hand-pulls fresh noodles for the lunch service at the Chinese restaurant he operates in New York.

The Ukrainian faction of an internationally banned terrorist organization, believed to have connections with Russia, continues to claim responsibility for multiple murders in Ukraine. This follows its alleged involvement in the bold assassination of an intelligence officer in Kyiv during the summer.

On Thursday, a Greek court sentenced three individuals linked to the spyware company Intellexa S.A. to more than 126 years in prison each, along with a fourth individual associated with a supplier firm, for breaching communications secrecy and data protection laws. These are the first significant convictions arising from a years-long international spyware scandal.

Vladimir Putin’s ruthless group of spies is discreetly establishing a network of “Trojan Horse” homes to cause chaos in Europe, intelligence chiefs have warned.

A 23-year-old man in Portugal has been formally charged with espionage after allegedly attempting to sell information obtained from NATO military computer equipment to the Russian Embassy in Lisbon, as reported by Portugal Resident on February 18, citing the Prosecutor General’s Office.

In August 2025, Putin abolished the Directorate for Interregional and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, which had been responsible for promoting “soft power” (and for spying, of course) and replaced it with the Presidential Directorate for Strategic Partnership and Cooperation.

A new report from Google has found evidence that state-sponsored hacking groups have utilized the AI tool Gemini at nearly every stage of the cyber attack cycle.

A Russian diplomat has received a 12-year sentence in a maximum security penal colony for selling state secrets to the United States.

After the detention of a Kazakh KNS officer, Anuar Bakibay, in Poland, a major scandal erupted, revealing that the KNS not only engages in espionage activities on behalf of Russia but also sells personal data of Kazakh citizens at discounted prices.