A Chinese national has been arrested for allegedly flying a drone over Vandenberg Space Force Base in California’s Santa Barbara County. Yinpiao Zhou, 39, was taken into custody at San Francisco International Airport just before boarding a flight to China, according to the Justice Department. Zhou, a resident of Brentwood, has been charged with violating…
China’s top intelligence agency has warned that open-source information poses threats to national security by making sensitive data vulnerable to exploitation by foreign spies. Sensitive data that is not properly declassified or assessed for risks can be publicly spread online and “become an important source of open-source intelligence” for overseas spy agencies, the Ministry of…
Berlin — German authorities have detained a U.S. citizen on suspicion of attempting to pass sensitive information about American military operations in Germany to Chinese intelligence agencies. The suspect has been identified only as Martin D., under German privacy laws. He is a 37-year-old former civilian contractor employed by the U.S. military who was arrested by…
China’s top spy agency said a tip-off led investigators to crack a case of attempted smuggling of gallium – an essential component in military radar units that is subject to export controls – adding that it would continue to work to shut down theft of the country’s strategic minerals by “foreign espionage agencies”. The Ministry…
A case of alleged spying involving Hong Kong’s trade promotion office in London has returned to court, with the defence asking for more information to process thousands of messages, encrypted audio files and untranslated materials presented as evidence. But the judge at the Central Criminal Court, commonly known as the Old Bailey, denied the request…