Credit Suisse has apologised after a black performer reportedly danced on stage dressed as a janitor at a birthday party for the bank’s chairman, Urs Rohner. Tidjane Thiam, the bank’s former chief executive, walked out of the room during the performance, the New York Times reported. Thiam, who resigned in […]

Dickson Jun Wei Yeo pleaded guilty this month in a US court to obtaining sensitive information on behalf of Chinese intelligence agents. Yeo told investigators that he exploited LinkedIn’s “relentless” algorithm to find new contacts in the government and military. Those contacts were sometimes paid between $US1,000 and $US2,000 to […]

US officials said that the FBI has been investigating the Chinese Consulate in Houston over espionage concerns, NBC News reported. The US government ordered the consulate to close earlier this week and gave it until Friday to do so. There were reports of people burning papers not long after the […]

While the US Justice Department has concluded that the Chinese military hacked into the credit-reporting service Equifax, it was the broken US political system that made such a hack possible. A combination of lobbying and ideological inflexibility has made it impossible for Congress to pass good federal privacy and cybersecurity […]

The US government accused Huawei of spying on people by exploiting telecoms “back doors” intended for use by law enforcement, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. The US has repeatedly accused Huawei of spying for the Chinese government, but this is the first detail it’s given about how it […]

In late December the New York Times published a report claiming that ToTok, a UAE-based messaging and voice call app, was a spying tool for the Emirati government. Google and Apple both took the app down ahead of the report. Now Google has quietly allowed the app back on its […]

The New York Times has revealed in a bombshell report that ToTok, a popular new messaging app, is actually a tool for the United Arab Emirates government to spy on users. After being alerted by The Times, both Google and Apple kicked the app off their app stores. Google said […]

The Justice Department’s inspector general found no evidence to support President Donald Trump’s claim that the FBI inserted spies in his 2016 presidential campaign, The New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with a draft of the report. Trump has repeatedly and baselessly alleged that the FBI inserted […]

Federal prosecutors have charged two former Twitter employees with spying on behalf of the Saudi Arabian government, The Washington Post first reported. The criminal complaint unsealed Wednesday alleges that the former employees snooped on the accounts of people who were critical of Saudi Arabia. The defendants allegedly spied on more […]

The secretive world of Swiss banking has been rocked by a wild scandal involving spies, a suicide, and a clash at a cocktail party. Credit Suisse hired private investigators to spy on Iqbal Khan, its former head of wealth management, after he feuded with CEO Tidjane Thiam and left for […]

Israel was this week accused of plating spy devices in Washington, D.C., in an apparent attempt to monitor President Donald Trump. Israel denied doing so. Former intelligence officials were surprised, which they regard as reckless even for Israel, known for its maverick tendencies. “The Israelis are capable of things no […]

Details are gradually emerging about a former US intelligence asset inside the Russian government, who was hastily extracted in 2017. A man identified by Russian media as a former intelligence official, who matches the description of the extracted spy, appears to have been living openly in Virginia using his own […]

Huawei technicians helped the Ugandan and Zambian governments spy on their political opponents, leading to their arrest, according to The Wall Street Journal. There’s no evidence that Huawei or China approved or even knew about the actions of the Huawei employees stationed in Uganda and Zambia. Nothing indicates that the […]

Messaging services like WhatsApp face increased pressure from governments to let spies infiltrate private conversations, undermining the promise of end-to-end encrypted chats. The UK hosted the “Five Eyes” nations for a security summit this week. In a press statement following the summit UK home secretary Priti Patel and US Attorney […]

Iran’s intelligence ministry says it broke up a CIA spying ring in the country and detained 17 Iranian suspects. The suspects were employed in “vital private sector centres in the economic, nuclear, infrastructural, military, and cyber areas,” where they “collected classified information,” the ministry said, according to Sky News. CNN […]

More than 10 cell service providers around the world have been hacked in an attack that compromises key information about customers of the affected providers, according to a report by security research firm Cybereason. Information includes call detail records, like who customers were talking to, what devices they were using, […]

There’s a widely held belief that Facebook and Instagram listen in on people’s smartphones, and then serve advertisements based on their speech. CBS This Morning anchor Gayle King is among that group, and nothing the head of Instagram said in an interview could convince her otherwise. “I don’t believe you!” […]