Stories from Scandinavia, Poland and Beyond
Norway’s security police (PST) has arrested a 25-year-old man suspected of spying on the government, including the Prime Minister’s office and the Ministry of Defence. The suspect was taken into custody during the weekend, broadcasting company NRK reported. On Tuesday, […]
NORWAY, 6 SEP 2023: Facebook and Instagram‘s mother company Meta is sentenced to pay day fines to the Norwegian people for breach of their privacy. A court in Oslo judged that the American social media giant cannot postpone paying the […]
Kristian D, who was sentenced in 2021 in Sweden for spying on Scania and Volvo Cars, gave the codes of Volvo’s autonomous driving on a USB stick to Russian “diplomat”. The discovery made by investigative journalists of the Scandinavian national […]
The Swedish Armed Forces have taken delivery of their first naval vessel in more than a decade. HMS Artemis is the new signal intelligence vessel, a spy ship, which once tested will replace the aging HMS Orion in 2024. The […]
UPDATED 3 DECEMBER 2022 | Sweden seems to be under the spell of espionage. In the same month as many juicy details of probably the biggest contra-espionage failure in recent Swedish history came out, the Swedish security police arrested another […]
Two brothers with Iranian roots have been arrested in Sweden for what looks like a giant espionage scandal that hits the country’s basic intelligence services at its core. The oldest brother was a senior leader within the most secret part […]
Key communication cables, some are even used by the Norwegian Armed Forces, between mainland Norway and Longyearbyen on Svalbard have been cut by Russian fishing trawlers. Multiple times. Was this a deliberate operation directed by Moscow, or just an accidental […]
Hackers from possibly the Chinese armed forces reportedly took control of American satellites in 2007 and 2008, according to a US parliamentary committee. They reportedly succeeded to do it four times via a satellite control base in Spitsbergen, Norway. But […]
At least 57 Swedish citizens were spies in their own country for the East German intelligence service Stasi during the Cold War. This is evident from the new book Not only spies by professor and researcher Birgitta Almgren, which was […]
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been illegally spying on people far outside the US embassy in Sweden. By chance, the Swedish Homeland Security Police Säpo found out and put a stop to it. This is reported by the leading […]