Friday, January 19, 2024
CISA & FBI Release Chinese Drone Awareness Paper
"The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has enacted laws that provide the government with expanded legal grounds for accessing and controlling data held by firms in China. The use of Chinese-manufactured UAS in critical infrastructure operations risks exposing sensitive information to PRC authorities." more / download
Sunday, January 14, 2024
Recent Spy News
• Algeria caught up in spying drama on the eve of Africa Cup of Nations as police quiz man who flew a DRONE over their training session more
• 20 Best Spy Comedies – From 'Austin Powers' to 'Spies Like Us,' Moviefone counts down the 20 best spy comedies of all time. more
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
World Spy News Roundup
CA - The Five Eyes countries' intelligence chiefs came together on Tuesday to accuse China of intellectual property theft and using artificial intelligence for hacking and spying against the nations, in a rare joint statement by the allies. more
USA - Ethical hacker helps prevent a potential espionage disaster for CIA. A glitch on X, formerly known as Twitter, could have opened a can of worms for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had an ethical hacker on the microblogging website not sprung to action. more
Survey - 53% of employees in the Middle East, Turkiye, and Africa region fear spying from drones... Corporate spies and hackers use drones to get trade secrets, confidential information, and other sensitive data from corporations and data centers. A drone can carry a device for hacking into corporate networks – for instance, a smartphone, a compact computer (e.g., Raspberry Pi), or a signal interceptor (e.g., Wi-Fi Pineapple [1]), and hackers use these devices to access corporate data and disrupt communications. All wireless communication (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, RFID, etc.) is vulnerable to drone attacks. more
Finland - Dead man's estate and firm fined €5m in shipyard espionage case. A man who worked for the Meyer Turku shipyard copied files from the shipyard and a shipping company onto a hard drive and transferred them to his own consulting firm – but then died while the investigation was underway. more
Monday, October 9, 2023
Fine... Feathered Drones Now
Earlier this year we revealed creepily realistic drones made from dead birds were being developed by scientists. more
Saturday, June 24, 2023
Man Arrested for Spying on Woman with Drone
Officials said the woman victim...was preparing to use the shower when she heard a buzzing noise from outside. The woman went to her back yard thinking the sound had something to do with her pool when she noticed a drone hovering outside her bathroom window. When the victim approached the drone, she said it moved quickly in an attempt to get away from her when it crashed into a tree and hit the ground...the victim disabled the drone in her pool and called 911 shortly after. more
Saturday, June 17, 2023
A Tale of High-Stakes Corporate Espionage... a cautionary tale.
Thursday, April 6, 2023
Florida Grounds Drones over Fears of Spying
Thursday, March 30, 2023
Arizona Bill to Make Drone Spying a Crime Moves Forward
In a party-line vote on Wednesday, members of the House Commerce Committee approved legislation that would make it a criminal offense to intentionally photograph, tape or otherwise observe someone else in a private place where that person has a “reasonable expectation of privacy.”
The only thing is that there hasn’t been a consensus as to when exactly someone crosses that line. more
Saturday, March 4, 2023
Russian Spy Plane Destroyed With Help of Toy Store Drone
Friday, December 30, 2022
The Lasers are Coming - Killer Eyeglasses & Drones
Sunday, September 25, 2022
The CIA Renovated its Museum...
Friday, June 17, 2022
Drone Zapper – 40 in one blow!
An arms race of sorts is quietly underway to be able to counter any countermeasures against drones...
The U.S. Air Force deployed Raytheon Intelligence & Space’s first high-energy laser weapon system (HELWS) overseas...
HELWS is a 15-kW-class laser weapon system that fires a silent near-infrared beam of light to shoot down a drone or deliver what’s known as a “hard kill” within the defense realm. It’s capable of taking out at least 40 drones coming at it, and has a fairly long (yet undisclosed) range. more
Tuesday, October 5, 2021
Weird, Unusual & Interesting - Spy News Clickbait
Venice, Italy - The city’s leaders are acquiring the cellphone data of unwitting
tourists and using hundreds of surveillance cameras to monitor visitors
and prevent crowding. Next summer, they plan to install long-debated
gates at key entry points; visitors coming only for the day will have to
book ahead and pay a fee to enter. If too many people want to come,
some will be turned away. more
Banksy's Spy Booth Brick + NFT Auction Crashes Servers with Overwhelmingly Heavy Web Traffic more
Australia - An ABC News drone took the brunt of the bite force when a saltwater crocodile leapt up and plucked it from mid-air while filming in Darwin. video
Top 9 Surveillance Videos of the Week video
How Jamie Spears Spied on Britney Spears Through iCloud - A security firm spied on Britney Spears through her iCloud account. Here's how to figure out if someone is doing that to you, and how to stop it. more & more & more & bugsweep
ShadowDragon: Inside the Social Media Surveillance Software That Can Watch Your Every Move - The tool is the product of a growing industry whose work is usually kept from the public and utilized by police. more & more
Florida - New Law – Corporate Espionage (HB 1523): Sponsored by Republican Rep. Mike Beltran, the new law creates the crime of “trafficking in trade secrets” and enhances criminal penalties under certain circumstances. If the trafficking of trade secrets benefits a foreign government or company, the offense is now a first-degree felony. more
Florida - Surveillance Drone Assists in Search for Brian Laundrie more
Security researchers think Amazon's Astro bot isn't safe. more
Wednesday, September 22, 2021
From the Weird File: Drone Strike by a Ravin' Raven
Is it a bird?
Is it a plane?
It's a raven swooping on a drone attempting to make a delivery to a Canberran craving caffeine.
Key points:
- Drone service Wing temporarily halts its drone deliveries to the Canberra suburb of Harrison
- The company says it has received reports of birds swooping on objects during nesting season
- The pause on deliveries will allow bird experts to investigate the behaviour of ravens
A battle for aerial dominance is emerging as nesting season coincides with a surge in demand for drone deliveries during Canberra's lockdown.
Drone delivery service operator Wing has paused flights in the northern suburb of Harrison while bird experts assess the behaviour of local ravens to ensure their welfare is safeguarded. more
Monday, September 13, 2021
Urban Drone Detection is Due to Become Easier Thanks to 5G
“Cobalt’s technology increases the number of exploitable drone
signatures for detection and tracking,” said Dr. Jeff Randorf, DHS
S&T engineering advisor and SBIR topic manager. “As more 5G mmWave
transceivers are deployed in city centers, the ability to detect and
track drones in complex urban geometries becomes easier, while not
contributing to an already crowded radio frequency spectrum.” more
Wednesday, September 8, 2021
Martian Helicopter - Coincidence or Espionage? You Decide.
China’s National Space Science Center is working on an aerial drone that bears a striking resemblance to NASA’ Ingenuity helicopter, currently on Mars. It’s got four outstretched wiry legs, two rotors stacked atop each other, and a simplified fuselage. It’s China’s take on NASA’s wildly successful aerial drone.
A press release from China’s National Space Science Center suggests the vehicle, called the “Mars cruise drone,” has passed acceptance and will presumably advance to the next stage of development. Eventually, the Chinese aerial drone could make it to Mars, where it will patrol the landscape and further China’s exploration of the Red Planet. To that end, the Mars cruise drone will be equipped with a spectrometer for performing aerial surveys and for studying the Martian geology. more
Tuesday, June 15, 2021
Football Team Launches Retaliation Drone
The team sent up its own drone which swiftly brought down the "spy-cam".
But rather than being a devious Argentine device, the drone turned out to be from a Chilean energy company. more
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Drone Spying Claims 'Tiger King' star Jeff Lowe
'Tiger King' star Jeff Lowe claims Carol Baskin, husband Howard were spying on his property with drones. Howard Baskin denied snooping on the 'Tiger King' star in a statement to Fox News.
The owner of the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park in Oklahoma alleged to TMZ on Tuesday that he called local police to report some activity at his plot in Thackerville after his son supposedly spotted a drone flying high above the property.
The "Tiger King" star further claims that when he went to confront a film crew that appeared to be filming, Baskin and Howard bolted and Lowe ended up in a scuffle with one of his neighbors, who was allegedly with the film crew.
Lowe’s
neighbors – a couple – ran away when confronted but the neighbors' son
allegedly got in a tussle with Lowe, the gossip site reported Lowe told
them of the incident on Tuesday. more
Friday, January 8, 2021
Is This Mystery Unmanned Vessel Really A Chinese Spy?
On December 20, Indonesian fishermen netted an unusual catch – a torpedo-like submarine drone or unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV), still functioning with an indicator light blinking. They passed their find to Indonesian authorities. Military analysts have been quick to identify the craft as a Sea Wing or Haiyi, a Chinese-made UUV operated by China's navy. But it might not be so simple.
Most UUVs are bright yellow or orange to make them easier to retrieve; this one is dull grey, a strong indication that the operators did not want the vessel to be spotted. The fact that nobody has stopped forward to claim the device is a further indication it was on a covert mission.
In fact, the circumstances rather closely mirror the mystery unmanned vessel washed up in Scotland last year. However, this is a rather different and even more covert craft. more
Tuesday, December 29, 2020
There is a New Kind of Bug Comin' to the UK, Mate
The Bug is a nano-Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) weighing 196g – similar to the weight of a smartphone – with 40 minute battery life and a 2km range.
It boasts a stealthy low visual profile and the ability to fly even in strong winds of more than 50mph...
The teams are now working on the next developments on the nano-UAV, exploring sensing equipment and capabilities which could be added, as well as how the Bug could be integrated with other military equipment. more