11 arrested in Europol shutdown of illegal IPTV streaming networks
In the takedown announced on Wednesday, Europol said it investigated 102 suspects and arrested 11 of them on accusations they were distributing content from streaming services illegally.
Doppelgänger operation rushes to secure itself amid ongoing detections, German agency says
Recent scrutiny of the Russia-linked Doppelgänger influence operation has disrupted how it behaves, according to the BayLfV, an agency of the Bavarian state government.
Moscow’s Spies Were Stealing US Tech — Until the FBI Started a Sabotage Campaign
One day at the dawn of the 1980s, an FBI agent in his 30s named Rick Smith walked into the Balboa Café, an ornate, historic watering hole in San Francisco’s leafy Cow Hollow neighborhood. Smith, who was single at the time, lived nearby and regularly frequented the spot. As he approached the oak wood bar to order a drink he suddenly spotted a familiar face — someone Smith had met about a year before, after the man had walked into the Soviet Consulate in San Francisco. He was Austrian by birth, but a denizen of Silicon Valley, an entrepreneur who operated as a middleman between American tech companies and European countries hungry for the latest hi-tech goods.
