The practice of modern high-tech espionage
Yesterday, the US Department of Justice posted open access claims to 11 spies who collected information for the Russian Federation. The documents on this case ( PDF1 , PDF2 ) show what spying a 21st century is: the guys used high technology in full.
For example, in one of the episodes of the case informant Anna Chapman (Anna Chapman) brought a laptop with secret information in a cafe on 47th Street in Manhattan. Representatives of the Russian intelligence arrived in a minibus and removed all the necessary information remotely, without even entering the building.
In another episode, the same informant went to the Barnes and Noble bookstore on Greenwich Street, opened a laptop and joined a closed WiFi network through which the Russians again copied all the necessary information without entering into personal contact with the informant.
Russian undercover agents, introduced into the United States several decades ago, used a special steganography program developed in Moscow to transmit information. As the FBI experts say, the program was called by pressing Ctrl + Alt + E, after which it was necessary to enter a 27-digit password. Agents' hard drives are under arrest, and the FBI is now trying to find a password to prove its theory.
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The American authorities have still not received information about what specific information the Russians were able to pass on to Moscow, so agents were charged under other articles: 18 USC 371 (illegal conspiracy to harm the United States) in violation of 18 USC 951 (mandatory registration agents of foreign governments in the US attorney’s office). Nine agents are also charged with money laundering.
via Cnet
For example, in one of the episodes of the case informant Anna Chapman (Anna Chapman) brought a laptop with secret information in a cafe on 47th Street in Manhattan. Representatives of the Russian intelligence arrived in a minibus and removed all the necessary information remotely, without even entering the building.
In another episode, the same informant went to the Barnes and Noble bookstore on Greenwich Street, opened a laptop and joined a closed WiFi network through which the Russians again copied all the necessary information without entering into personal contact with the informant.
Russian undercover agents, introduced into the United States several decades ago, used a special steganography program developed in Moscow to transmit information. As the FBI experts say, the program was called by pressing Ctrl + Alt + E, after which it was necessary to enter a 27-digit password. Agents' hard drives are under arrest, and the FBI is now trying to find a password to prove its theory.
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The American authorities have still not received information about what specific information the Russians were able to pass on to Moscow, so agents were charged under other articles: 18 USC 371 (illegal conspiracy to harm the United States) in violation of 18 USC 951 (mandatory registration agents of foreign governments in the US attorney’s office). Nine agents are also charged with money laundering.
via Cnet
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/97769/
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