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SLOVAKIAN SECURITY FIRM DETECTS BOT...

ESET, a Slovakian security firm, claims that the Georgian government’s website figured in a botnet’s cyber-spying on denizens of that nation. Win32/Georbot infected a small number of computers, approximately 200, primarily in Georgia, with 30% located in the United States, Germany, and Russia. According to ESET researcher Righard Zwienenberg, the Georbot searched on the hard drives …

EX LIBYAN ESPIONAGE HEAD AT CENTER ...

Abdullah al-Senussi, Libya’s former head of intelligence and one of the most humted figures of the toppled Gadhafi regime, is now the subject of an extradition tug of war between Libya, France, and the International Criminal Court (ICC), following his arrest in Mauritania earlier this month. The late Moammar Gadhafi’s brother-in-law was taken into custody at …

CHARGES BROUGHT IN CASE OF ALLEGED ...

Greek authorities filed formal charges earlier this month against “persons unknown” for purportedly plotting to assassinate Kostas Karamanlis, the Prime Minister at the time of the conspiracy dating from 2007-2009, in order to undermine the government. An anonymous court official disclosed that the initial inquiry entailed interviews of Greek police, Secret Service members, and the Karamanlis’ …

22 ESPIONAGE ARRESTS IN AZERBAIJAN ...

Azerbaijani officials reported last week the arrests of 22 suspects charged with being Iranian agents, amid assertions of connections to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. The National Security Ministry’s short announcement gave no indication of when the arrests occurred and, therefore, was ambiguous as to whether the referred to arrests had just taken place, or if the statement …

IRANIAN SUPREME COURT SETS ASIDE DE...

Earlier this month came word that the death sentence handed down by Iran’s Revolutionary Court upon the conviction of Amir Mirza Hekmati in January on charges of working for the CIA, had been overturned by that country’s Supreme Court. Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei revealed at a news conference in the Iranian capital that the Supreme Court …

AFGHANISTAN ARRESTS OWN DIPLOMAT AN...

Afghan intelligence disclosed in late February the arrests of a high level Afghan diplomat along with another three government employees a month before, the four alleged to have been operatives for Pakistan and Iran. According to Lutfullah Mashal, spokesman for Afghanistan’s spy agency, the charges brought against the suspects were grounded in solid proof and related …

AMERICAN SAILOR FACES CHARGES OF AT...

Petty Officer 2nd Class Bryan Minkyu Martin was taken into custody by NCIS and FBI agents on December 1st of last year for various alleged espionage related offenses, and earlier this month Navy officials disclosed the formal charges filed against him. The complete tally entails four counts of attempted spying, with an additional 11 counts of…

ONETIME DUPONT SCIENTIST ENTERS GUI...

Tze Chao, an ex DuPont employee from Delaware, pled guilty to one count of economic espionage in United States District Court in San Francisco earlier this month, specifically confessing that in 2008 and 2009 he passed on DuPont trade secrets regarding titanium dioxide production to the Chinese government directed Pangang Group Company Ltd. Mr. Chao had …

TAIWANESE MILITARY SHAKEN BY SECOND...

Taiwan’s military was forced to contend once again with allegations of a spy for mainland China in their midst, amid reports at the end of February of an Air Force captain taken into custody on suspicion of handing over classified information to China, following as they do the highly publicized arrest of Army General Lo Hsien-che …

ESTONIAN COUPLE ARRESTED FOR ALLEGE...

Aleksei Dressen, a member of Estonia’s security police for almost two decades, and his wife, Viktoria Dressen, were taken into custody on February 22 at Tallinn Airport for purportedly turning over classified information and state secrets to Russia. According to prosecution spokeswoman Kadri Tammai, Mr. Dressen went to the airport to drop off a folder containing …

TWO WELSHMEN DETAINED IN LIBYA ARE ...

Nicholas Davies, a reporter known professionally as Nick Jones, and Gareth Montgomery-Johnson, a cameraman, both Welsh freelancers for the Iranian television station Press TV, were arrested in Tripoli late last month, and are the subjects of an espionage investigation, according to Sadoon Alswehle, commander of the Misratan militiamen holding them. The two British citizens were being …