Experts say plotters’ most crucial task is to convince other soldiers and officers that success is assured. Plus, our columnist’s recommendations for reading up on coups, and modern Russia.
Digging through manuals for security cameras, a group of gearheads found sinister details and ignited a new battle in the US-China tech war.
The attackers were in thousands of corporate and government networks. They might still be there now. Behind the scenes of the SolarWinds investigation.
Runa Sandvik has made it her life’s work to protect journalists against cyberattacks. Authoritarian regimes are keeping her in business.
How the downfall of one intelligence agent revealed the astonishing depth of Chinese industrial espionage.
When a SpaceX Falcon Heavy launched a national security mission to geostationary Earth orbit Jan. 15, the Space Force revealed that three of the payloads onboard were developed by one of its most s…
As investigators piece together clues, Russia has quietly taken steps to begin expensive repairs on the giant gas pipeline, complicating theories about who was behind September’s sabotage.
A far-right extremist wanted to advertise his clothing brand. Instead he’s given us an unintended lesson on the power of open source research methods.
A Russian spy with an unconventional Peruvian backstory, and a chaotic private life, managed to befriend and engage numerous staff and officers at a NATO base in Italy, a Bellingcat investigation has found.
The story of Josephine Baker.
Former President Donald Trump’s stockpile of allegedly classified documents puts a system for hiding information in the spotlight.
What are letters of marque and reprisal, and who is on the US’s list of Block Persons?
“MDZhB” has been broadcasting since 1982. No one knows why.
An alleged GRU spy who sought access to the International Criminal Court as an intern left a long and detailed trail on social media.
Using a custom encryption scheme within music notation, Merryl Goldberg and three other US musicians slipped information to Soviet performers and activists known as the Phantom Orchestra.
A Times investigation reveals how Israel reaped diplomatic gains around the world from NSO’s Pegasus spyware — a tool America itself purchased but is now trying to ban.
A trip through the intentionally unseeable World of Hiding Data in Imagery
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This is the previously classified story of a Hail Mary plan, a Dirty Dozen crew of lowlifes, and a woman who wouldn’t bow to authority as she fought to bring three captured CIA agents home from Cuba.
Thousands of soldiers, civilians and contractors operate under false names, on the ground and in cyberspace. A Newsweek investigation of the ever-growing and unregulated world of "signature reduction."
Establishing the time of day that a video or image was taken can be a difficult and frustrating task for open source researchers. But measuring the length of shadows can help provide a solution.
The mission, still a secret to this day, was so dangerous many men bid emotional goodbyes...
The plan to kill Osama bin Laden—from the spycraft to the assault to its bizarre political backdrop—as told by the people in the room.
Cameron Ortis was an RCMP officer privy to the inner workings of Canada's national security—and in a prime position to exploit them
Noor Khan, a pacifist descendant of Indian Royalty became a famed World War II spy for Britain’s Special Operations Executive.
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America’s bold response to the Soviet Union depended on an unknown spy agency operative whose story can at last be told
From Sergei Skripal to Alexei Navalny, Russia’s attempts to silence its enemies have been forensically exposed. At the centre of these revelations has been investigative unit Bellingcat
How a team of spies in Mexico got their hands on Russia's space secrets—and tried to change the course of the Cold War.
He wanted to learn about the Miami drug world and had been told I could help.
Bellingcat and its partners reported that Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) was implicated in the near-fatal nerve-agent poisoning of Alexey Navalny on 20 August 2020. The report identified eight clandestine operatives with medical and chemical/biological warfare expertise…
Sadly, the 1-gram spy craft couldn’t withstand a gentle breeze, but later dragonfly-inspired UAVs proved far more capable
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The regime in Pyongyang has sent hundreds of programmers to other countries. Their mission: Make money by any means necessary. Here's what their lives are like.
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This is the story of a little-known FBI forensics lab and how it changed the war on terror.
The untold story of how digital detectives unraveled the mystery of Olympic Destroyer—and why the next big cyberattack will be even harder to crack.
The Iranian approach to proxy warfare offers a surprising lesson.
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Dictators and assassins are using banned nerve agents again.
Hawks in Israel and America have spent more than a decade agitating for war against the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program. Will Trump finally deliver?
Nearly all the world’s counterfeits come from China. Pinkerton is on the case.
Translations:English (UK)Русский (Россия)In the first part of this “GRU Globetrotters” series, Bellingcat and its investigative partner The Insider teamed up with BBC Newsnight to trace the London movements and potential role of Russian GRU officer Denis Sergeev during the time…
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Thirty-two-year-old French economist Gabriel Zucman scours spreadsheets to find secret offshore accounts.
The International Spy Museum details the audacious plan that involved a reclusive billionaire, a 618-foot-long ship, and a great deal of stealth
Last week, as America’s top national security experts convened in Aspen, a strangely inquisitive Uber driver showed up, too.
The hit on Sergei Skripal.
The home phone of FBI special agent Michael Rochford rang in the middle of the night on August 2, 1985. He grabbed it and heard the voice of his FBI supervisor. “There’s a plane coming in, a high-level defector.” The day before, a Soviet man had walked into the US consulate in…