Intelligence

China working with gangs, shell firms to gain intel: Taiwan spy agency

Taiwan's intelligence bureau says China's main spy agency is working with criminal gangs, shell companies and other dubious partners to gain intelligence on Taiwan's defences, resulting in a major rise in those arrested for alleged espionage on the island. Current and retired Taiwanese military personnel are a special concern, accounting for around half of the 64 alleged spies put on trial last year, it said. That number is up from 16 in 2021 and 10 in 2022. The arrests are in line with China's stepped-up campaign of military intimidation, economic coercion and gray area tactics such as utilizing the internet to promote unification and providing all-expense-paid trips to China to low-level government officials. According to a report released over the weekend by Taiwan's National Security Bureau, Chinese agents have sought to use the Taiwanese underworld to channel funds to those with information to sell. Gangs, many with origins dating to before the 1949 split between the two sides,

Intel report says Soren's govt gave shelter to Bangladeshis: JP Nadda

BJP president J P Nadda on Sunday claimed that according to an intelligence report, the JMM-led coalition government in Jharkhand gave shelter to Bangladeshi infiltrators in madrasas and ensured that they got land and government documents like Aadhaar card. Nadda also hit out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi saying that he wants to become champion of Other Backward Classes, but questioned how many OBC members were in Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, a social service organisation headed by Sonia Gandhi, and the National Advisory Committee of the erstwhile UPA regime. The BJP president attacked Congress and the JMM, the two main constituents of the ruling coalition of Jharkhand, during his addresses at three election rallies during the day. "I have received an intelligence report just now. It says that Bangladeshi infiltrators are given shelter in madrasas here. Their Aadhaar, voter ID, gas connection and ration card are facilitated and then the Hemant Soren government ensures land for them,

Did Trudeau's advisor share classified intel on India with the US media?

Canadian news outlet claims that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's top national security advisor briefed The Washington Post on sensitive intelligence regarding India

CIA makes it easier, safer for potential informants to share tips

The CIA wants to make it easier -- and safer -- for people in Iran, China and North Korea to share information with the US's premier spy agency. The agency on Wednesday posted online instructions in Korean, Mandarin and Farsi detailing steps that potential informants can take to contact US intelligence officials without putting themselves in danger. The instructions include ways to reach the CIA on its public website or on the darknet, a part of the Internet that can only be accessed using special tools designed to hide the user's identity. The CIA posted similar instructions in Russian two years ago following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. "People are trying to reach out to us from around the world and we are offering them instructions for how to do that safely," the agency said in a statement. "Our efforts on this front have been successful in Russia, and we want to make sure individuals in other authoritarian regimes know that we're open for business." The tips, presented in ...

Inside US push to steer Vietnam's subsea cable plans away from China

Reuters was unable to learn more about the intelligence suggesting sabotage

Mastercard to buy Recorded Future for $2.65 bn to bolster intelligence

The acquisition will bring expanded threat intelligence capabilities to the New York-based payments firm, which recorded $9 trillion in gross dollar volumes last year

Next frontier in AI evolution: Hume.ai blends emotion and intelligence

Hume elevates conversational AI with 'emotional intelligence' for human-like interactions

Taiwan intelligence says China leadership discussed election interference

Beijing has repeatedly called the DPP dangerous separatists and urged Taiwanese to make the "right choice". The DPP's presidential candidate, Lai Ching-te, is leading in the polls

Canada's allegations may be based on intelligence of US or UK: Expert

Canada recently announced that the intelligence it is using to investigate the Nijjar case has got inputs from one of the other five Eye country members

AltG: This New Age Conglomerate Is The Latest Media Mogul

A deep dive into AltG's innovative strategy of building the future of the B2B Intelligence in India, led by founders Poornima Vardhan and Taponeel Mukherjee.

AI won't replace the need for human spies, says Britain's MI6 chief

Artificial intelligence will change the world of espionage, but it won't replace the need for human spies, the head of Britain's MI6 intelligence agency says in prepared remarks released Wednesday. Richard Moore, director of the UK's foreign intelligence agency, is set to speak in Prague on evolving threats to the West from Russia and Iran, and argue that the human factor will remain crucial in an era of rapidly evolving machine learning. AI is going to make information infinitely more accessible and some have asked whether it will put intelligence services like mine out of business, he says in extracts released in advance by the UK government. In fact, the opposite is likely to be true," he adds. "As AI trawls the ocean of open source, there will be even greater value in landing, with a well-cast fly, the secrets that lie beyond the reach of its nets. Moore, who has previously warned that the West was falling behind rivals in the AI race, will argue that the unique characteristics

FBI ignored 'massive amount' of intelligence before January 6: Senate

The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security downplayed or ignored a massive amount of intelligence information ahead of the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, according to the chairman of a Senate panel that on Tuesday released a new report on the intelligence failures ahead of the insurrection. The report details how the agencies failed to recognize and warn of the potential for violence as some of then-President Donald Trump's supporters openly planned the siege in messages and forums online. Among the multitude of intelligence that was overlooked was a December 2020 tip to the FBI that members of the far-right extremist group Proud Boys planned to be in Washington, DC, for the certification of Joe Biden's victory and their "plan is to literally kill people", the report said. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee said the agencies were also aware of many social media posts that foreshadowed violence, some calling on Trump's supporters to come

DGGI officers busts syndicate operating 569 fake firms, arrests mastermind

The GST intelligence officers have busted a syndicate operating 569 fake firms and passing on fraudulent tax credit of Rs 1,047 crore, the finance ministry said on Monday. The Jaipur Zonal Unit of Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) has busted a major crime syndicate operating in 14 states, based out of Delhi. The ministry said Delhi-based Rishabh Jain, aged 30, had hired 10 employees for operating these fake firms. After extensive recce and data analytics, the officials of DGGI, Jaipur were able to trace this mastermind in Delhi and nabbed him. This syndicate has issued invoices having taxable turnover of Rs 6,022 crore involving input tax credit (ITC) of Rs 1,047 crore through these 569 fake firms to more than 2,000 beneficiary firms. The majority of the fake firms are located in Delhi with presence in 13 other states -- Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Bihar, Jharkhand, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Haryana, West Bengal, Karnataka, Goa, Assam and Uttarakhand. So far, 73 ban

Chinese spy balloon gathered information from US military sites: Report

A Chinese spy balloon that flew across the US was able to gather intelligence from several sensitive American military sites and transmit it back to Beijing in real-time, despite the Biden administration's efforts to block it, a media report said on Monday. A suspected Chinese spy balloon said to be the size of three buses, was spotted over the airspace of the United States in late January. China was able to control the balloon so it could make multiple passes over some of the sites (at times flying figure-eight formations) and transmit the information it collected back to Beijing in real time, NBC News reported, quoting three unnamed officials. The intelligence China collected was mostly from electronic signals, which can be picked up from weapons systems or include communications from base personnel, rather than images, the officials were quoted as saying in the report. The three officials said China could have gathered much more intelligence from sensitive sites if not for the .

South Korea set to normalise military intelligence sharing with Japan

South Korea's Defence Ministry initiated the process to normalise the General Security of Military Information Agreement

A spook reminisces

In a country full of self-styled Kashmir and Pakistan experts, former R&AW chief A S Dulat's memoir can genuinely claim to be an authoritative account of Indian politics, security, and intelligence

India's 5G tablet shipments grow 61% QoQ in Q3 of Calendar 2022: CMR report

Overall tablet market was up 22% sequentially, likely to grow by 10-15% in the full calendar year

How artificial intelligence is making diagnosis faster and more accurate

It addresses the shortage of radiologists and pathologists and frees up doctors to deal with complex cases

AFCAT 2 2022 result declared on afcat.cdac.in; check details here

The IAF has declared AFCAT 2 2022 result on Friday. Candidates who appeared for the exam can check their scorecard from the official website- afcat.cdac.in

India contributed 3000 police personnel in 24 missions across globe: IB

India has contributed 3000 police personnel in 24 missions across the world, the Director of Intelligence Bureau Tapan Deka said during a high-level event on Thursday.