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Five former Austrian officials are standing trial for allegedly providing asylum to Gen. Khaled Halabi, a Syrian war criminal, at Israeli intelligence agency Mossad's behest.
Former officials allegedly agreed to push asylum for Khaled Halabi, a former top intel official recruited by Israel's spy service but accused of torture and other abuses for Assad
Porsche SE board member Siegfried Wolf wants to rebuild war-sanctioned Russia's automobile sector using German know-how from companies including Volkswagen. He even pitched his plan in a letter directly to Putin – and asked for an 800-million-euro credit line.
All those things are elements of cyberwarfare, a specialty of Russian secret service agencies. And Vulkan works for those agencies: for the military intelligence agency GRU, the domestic intelligence agency FSB and for the foreign and economic intelligence agency SVR. "To begin with, it wasn’t clear what my work would be used for,” says one former employee, who has since left
Elite hackers from Russia have their sights set on airports and power plants around the world, along with the internet. Confidential data from Moscow, obtained by DER SPIEGEL and its partners, now provide a look inside their arsenal of cyber-weapons and reveal their strategy.