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'[...] When the 13 websites were seized, Roman Rozhavsky, the FBI’s assistant director responsible for counter-intelligence, alleged they “illustrate the lengths the Chinese government’s intelligence services will go to as they try to use AI-generated content to trick, recruit, or coerce”. [...]'

"[...] Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) has issued an official warning about a Russian disinformation campaign ahead of several state and local elections scheduled for September. The agency directly linked the campaign to the Russian Matryoshka bot network [...]"

"[...] New Zealand’s Security Intelligence Service (NZSIS) has claimed Chinese companies are building space facilities in the nation to gather military intelligence. Director-general of security Andrew Hampton yesterday made that allegation in the SIS’s annual threat environment assessment. [...] The report offers a case study of a China-based organization called “Purple Mountain Observatory” that has “close links” to Beijing and tried to install GBSI in New Zealand. [...]"

"[...] For decades, China maintained a relatively small nuclear arsenal of only a couple hundred nuclear weapons, compared to the thousands held by the United States and Russia. Everything changed, however, when 320 new silos in China — each of which could hold missiles carrying multiple warheads — were discovered in 2021 by open-source researchers. [...]"

Re: Denis Obrezko, the Russian national arrested in Thailand in November 2025, who allegedly worked for the FSB in 2012-2017 and in 2024 became deputy director at the IT company Yutek-NN that U.S. prosecutors believe is involved in the Void Blizzard cyber espionage campaign. Obrezko is now reported to have worked at Kaspersky in 2017-2019, demonstrating "the thin lines between the cybersecurity industry and government spies".

'[...] On the fentanyl brokers, the CSE said it collected foreign intelligence on the criminals involved and then conducted an active cyberoperation – disruptive hacking – against them that the agency says, “disrupted and diminished their ability to operate.” The CSE says it also supported law enforcement as part of the effort. [...] It is the first time the CSE has publicly described a completed offensive cyberoperation targeting the fentanyl supply chain in its annual report. [...]'

"[...] The choice was notable because Gofman came from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) rather than from within the Mossad itself. [...] On the one hand, supporters viewed him as a highly capable commander whose operational experience, creativity, and wartime service made him well-suited to lead the country’s foreign intelligence service. On the other hand, critics questioned his lack of intelligence experience, his close association with Prime Minister Netanyahu, and controversies stemming from allegations of lapses in decision-making and command disputes during his military career. [...]"

From the article (bold emphasis added):

>"[...] Authorities in Norway arrested a Chinese citizen on espionage allegations Thursday in connection with a purported effort to set up a receiver to collect sensitive satellite data, the country’s domestic intelligence service said. [...] Police launched their operation on the suspicion that a Norwegian-registered company was operating as a front for a Chinese state actor, the Police Security Service, or PST, said. [...] The suspect, who was identified only as a Chinese woman, allegedly tried “to establish a receiver for satellite downloads from satellites in polar orbits suitable for collecting data that could harm fundamental Norwegian interests if it becomes known to a foreign state,” PST police attorney Thomas Blom said in a statement. [...]"

Re: Victor Manuel Rocha, a former U.S. ambassador to Cuba who was charged by the U.S. with acting as an illegal agent of the Cuban government. The full complaint (13MB .pdf, 232 pages): https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1439951/dl

"[...] In March 2025, the U.S. Air Force announced that the contract award for the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) platform would go to Boeing, which will develop and manufacture the F-47 sixth-generation fighter aircraft. Described by the Air Force Chief of Staff as the “crown jewel” of the NGAD family of systems, the F-47 represents a significant advance over the fifth-generation F-22, with cutting-edge stealth, sensor fusion, and long-range strike capabilities.  These capabilities will be critical in countering the increasingly sophisticated anti-access/area-denial (A2/AD) capabilities that China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) would employ in a potential future conflict over Taiwan. [...]"