Espionage

WhatsApp has unveiled a security breach that has allowed attackers to inject commercial Israeli spyware on the phones, writes Financial Times, quoted by BGNES.

The application is used by 1.5 billion people worldwide. It turned out that the tracking software could be installed through a security system hole that worked on both Apple's and Android users.

A lipstick pistol, a button-hole camera, a lethal umbrella and an authentic waterboarding table: The espionage world's heroic, ingenious and sordid sides are all on show in Washington's all-new, much-expanded International Spy Museum.

The Christchurch terrorist certainly had contacts with Bulgarians while he was in our country. This was stated in an interview with Darik by the writer and former counter-intelligence officer Pavlin Pavlov, according to whom the Australian should have drawn the attention of our services.

A 30-year-old man whose body was found at a steep rocky area of the Tourkovounia hill range in central Athens on Wednesday afternoon is believed to have died from the fall, according to Thursday's forensic report.
The victim bore fatal multiple fractures consistent with a fall from a great height, while there were no indications of foul play, the report said.

Donald Trump's personal attorney-at-law plans to accuse him of knowing about the leak of emails of the Democratic Party in the summer of 2016 via the WikiLeaks website that hit his rival in the presidential election, Reuters and CNN report.

Russia said Monday its security services had detained a US citizen in Moscow accused of spying, the latest in a series of espionage cases between Russia and the West.

Alex Younger, head of the British Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, said that his first intelligence job was penetrating an organisation “intent on genocide” in the Balkans in the mid-1990s.

Espionage and intelligence have rather been taboo issues few writers have dared to tackle, says veteran journalist Murat Yetkin, adding that his new book will open Pandora's Box on spying in Turkey. Yetkin says Turkey was, and will remain, a stage for international spying activities.

Turkey's National Intelligence Organization (MİT) has opened an online museum dedicated to the history of espionage on its website. From Turkish intelligence reports on Lawrence of Arabia to curious gadgets for espionage, you can click through for the stories from MİT's digital museum.

President Vladimir Putin said on Sept. 12 that Russia knew the real identity of two men accused by British prosecutors of trying to murder former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Britain.