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Online ads helped deliver Israeli spyware to devices visiting Al Jazeera, 120,000 websites

Its services gave Candiru, a spyware company blacklisted by the US government, and other surveillance firms access to advertising platforms run by Google, Comcast, Russia's Yandex, and others.

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A device, which the US Justice Department says is a hidden audio recording device installed in an OpenAI executive conference room by Abdulrahman Alfozan, a Saudi national employed as an engineer at the AI company, at a location given as San Francisco, California, US. Photo released Oct. 13, 2026.

FBI arrests Saudi OpenAI engineer over covert recording device, DOJ says

 An illustrative image of the NSO Group logo on a smartphone.

Pegasus spyware scandal deepens as Poland questions Israeli tech, strengthens ties with Turkey

Russian military blogger Mikhail Zvinchuk, 31, who runs Telegram account called Rybar (fisherman in Russian), attends an AFP interview in Moscow on April 28, 2023

Montenegro expels founder of pro-Kremlin war blog Rybar over security concerns


IRGC manufactures espionage fears in Jordan despite low public opinion of Islamic Republic

The IRGC claimed on Monday to have damaged aircraft in attacks on Jordan’s Aqaba Airport, which notably came after Amman denied having evacuated the airport and seaport.

The IRGC clerics prepare for the funeral of Iran's slain supreme leader Ali Khamenei at the Grand Mosalla in Tehran on July 3, 2026.

Israel urges rabbis to help stop Iranian spy recruitment after dozens of indictments - report

Iranian agents use a simple recruitment method, relying on "fishing expeditions and luck," gradually escalating their demands in exchange for "easy" money.

Rabbi Yigal Cohen light candles for the 45 victims who were killed in a stampede, at the scene of the fatal disaster, at Mt Meron, last week. May 06, 2021.

Trump spy nominee Jay Clayton faces tense hearing after refusing to say Joe Biden won in 2020

Clayton said only that Biden had been "certified" as president, while also insisting, "I am not an election denier."

Jay Clayton, US President Donald Trump's nominee to be Director of National Intelligence, testifies during a Senate Intelligence Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Italy arrests two over alleged spying for Russia

Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto said the investigation helped to reveal Russia's true attitude to Italy after Italy provided military and civilian aid to Ukraine.

 Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto delivers remarks during a meeting with US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon on June 15, 2026 in Arlington, Virginia.

Tajik national charged in alleged Iran spying case after filming Haifa Port, Elbit facility

Dodobaev, a Tajik citizen whose temporary Israeli residency permit had expired by May, is charged with contact with a foreign agent, and several other serious crimes.

A Tajik national flag flies in the wind in the Tajik exclave of Vorukh in the Kyrgyz Batken region, where multiple deadly border conflicts between the two Central Asian nations took place since the fall of the Soviet Union, on May 24, 2025.

Israel detains American citizen over alleged paid missions for Iranian intelligence

Police say suspect photographed sensitive sites in Israel, received tens to hundreds of dollars per assignment; prosecutor’s statement filed.

An Iranian man walks past an anti-US and anti-Israel mural painted on a wall, in the capital Tehran on May 10, 2026.

US court sentences Israeli resident in Scottsdale, Arizona over trade secret conspiracy

US officials said an Israeli citizen working in Arizona received a sentence of time served after pleading guilty to a conspiracy to steal sensitive semiconductor design data.

A close-up of a test sample of a transistor chip under a microscope in the laboratory (illustrative)

Haifa man sentenced to over eight years in prison for providing information to foreign agent

Dimitri Cohen was convicted of making contact with a foreign agent and attempting to provide information that could be used by Iran and its terrorist proxies during wartime.

An illustrative image of a man in handcuffs, being arrested.

Trump pauses Senate efforts to confirm Jay Clayton as Director of National Intelligence - report

Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social that Clayton would not be there because lawmakers had allowed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to lapse.

The US Capitol building is illuminated the night the Senate passed a short-term government funding bill, more than a month into the longest US government shutdown, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., November 10, 2025.

Haifa man indicted on charges of espionage for Iran, revealing sensitive information during war

According to police reports, the man transferred intelligence to Iranian-linked actors from January to March 2025, including during the recent Israeli-US war with Iran.

An illustrative photo of a laptop displaying the Iranian flag, representing Iran in a digital or cyber context, March 27, 2026.