Russia’s FSB is facing mounting criticism over its claim that a Ukrainian woman assassinated the daughter of a prominent Putin ally, with critics insisting it should look inside its own borders first. Speculation is now rife that the real architects of last Saturday’s car bombing are either the security services themselves – the victim, Darya Dugina, and her father Alexander had been criticising how long the war was taking in the Ukraine – or a new anti-Vladimir Putin group which has been formed in Russia called the National Republican Army (NRA). The FSB boldly announced it had solved the murder…

RANSOMWARE attacks are expanding at such an exponential rate that they will cost the global economy ten trillion dollars ($10 trillion) by 2025, according to an influential new study. The figure came from researchers at the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA), which has been monitoring cyber-crime across the world since 2004. The Athens-headquartered organisation arrived at its projection after analysing 623 ransomware incidents which took place between May 2021 and June 2022. And ENISA’s “Threat landscape for Ransomware Attacks” makes chilling reading. It reveals how ransomware has now become a franchise commodity where a cyber-criminal with even basic computer…

Cyber experts fear Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin has become the victim of a carefully orchestrated smear campaign, just as she has was gaining support on her call for an EU-wide ban on visas for Russian tourists. Tell-tale signs of a potential misinformation operation were the apparent hacking of a private Instagram account linked to one of her close friends, from which two videos clips were stolen. Despite being recorded on the same night several weeks ago – the first in a private home and the second in the VIP room of a Helsinki nightclub – they were leaked separately…

Pro-Russian hackers Killnet have again reminded the world that the war with Ukraine is not just being fought on the ground. This week, Killnet blitzed a wave of public and private websites in Estonia in the biggest cyber-attack of its kind against the Baltic state since 2007. The official website of Estonian President Alar Karis was among 200 targeted by the pro-Putin cyber criminals using IP addresses which have all been traced back to Russia. But despite sending more than forty million DDoS queries to the president’s website, the hackers failed to bring it down. Among those also subjected to…

Economists are warning of a global hi-tech doomsday scenario in which Chinese moves to annex or erect a trade blockade around Taiwan spark inflation-busting price rises for mobile phones and other hi-tech “must haves.” Their concern stems from parallels between this potential conflict and the one in the Ukraine, namely the rest of the world’s over-reliance on one of countries involved for a product it badly needs. But whereas it has been Russia for gas (before the war the EU was importing 40% of all its natural gas supplies from the Soviet Union) it is Taiwan for electronic chips –…

Updated: Putin is widening his weaponization of the ZNPP and there are breaking news reports alleging Russia has told workers not to show up on Friday, August 19th — and that Russia is threatening to shut down the ZNPP entirely. The (likely) false flag games continue — and Putin’s Nuclear Force Z may be hitting its stride. by Jonathan Sweet and Mark Toth, Guest Authors. Bastogne, Berlin, El Alamein, and now Zaporizhzhia. More than merely longitude and latitude coordinates on a map or battle plan, they symbolize portentous moments in history when human liberty or tyranny is in the balance.…

Attempts by a pro-China group to spark a boycott of western competitors in the Rare Earths market through a social media disinformation campaign have been dealt a severe and much-welcome body blow. National Security News can reveal that Twitter has quietly deleted thousands of bogus accounts which were spreading false narratives against Australian mining company, Lynas Rare Earths Ltd, Canada’s Appia Rare Earths & Uranium Corp; and the American firm, USA Rare Earth. The false flag operation was believed to be coordinated by the Dragonbridge group, a front for the People’s Republic of China, which has been behind a series…

Two Russian nationals, four US political groups and their prominent leaders have been sanctioned by the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the Department of Justice for plotting malign influence operations. Viewed as a textbook operation, Russian intelligence have specifically leveraged racial tension in the US to weaken the electoral process, with one alleged infiltrated political group recently unmasked as the radical racial socialist organisation, The Uhuru’s in Florida. FBI Special Agent in Charge David Walker called the latest Russian efforts “some of the most egregious and blatant violations we’ve seen.” The designated Russian individuals, Aleksandr Viktorovich Ionov and…

A pro-China disinformation campaign has targeted rare earth mining companies from Australia, Canada, and the U.S. with destructive messaging about operations, in an attempt to manipulate public opinion to China’s benefit. US cyber security firm, Mandiant, reported firms targeted in the online attack include Australian mining company, Lynas Rare Earths Ltd; Canada’s Appia Rare Earths & Uranium Corp; and the American company, USA Rare Earth. The operation, known as Dragonbridge, has been said to be a part of wider Chinese efforts to undermine foreign attempts to develop a rare earths processing capability outside of China and maintain China’s current dominance. Mandiant reported…

The UK is facing the international embarrassment of having to concede that an SRA-regulated lawyer, whom MI5 outed as an agent of the Chinese state, has vanished with the authorities unable to land a proverbial glove on her. Six months ago, the security services issued an unprecedented warning that Christine Ching Kui Lee, 58, had been working in parliament “to subvert the processes.” In the blaze of publicity which followed, it emerged that she had poured £500,000 into the coffers of Labour frontbencher Barry Gardiner, and also cosied up to former Tory prime ministers David Cameron and Theresa May, with…

Pictures demolish defence claim

A U.S. defense contractor Walter Glenn Primrose and his wife Gwynn Morrison have been indicted on July 22, 2022, on multiple charges of identity theft and conspiracy against the United States. Preliminary evidence suggests espionage ties to Russia. Intriguing facts have come to light. The couple abruptly left their Texas home 40 years ago after telling friends and family they were avoiding legal and financial trouble. Without leaving a trail, they subsequently established themselves in Hawaii under the stolen identity of two infants who had died in the late 1960s. After arriving in Hawaii, Primrose enlisted in the coast guard…