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Private spies

Black Cube, Fusion GPS, K2 Integrity, Tactical Rabbit - all low-key corporate brands with something in common: they inhabit the shadowy world of spooks-for-hire, private spies who blur the line between government and corporate espionage. Who are they? What do they do? Who do they work for? And who are their targets?  

COVERT AFFAIRS

Operation Rubicon

Crypto AG is a masterclass in corporate and governmental espionage. The Swiss company, owned by the CIA and Germany's BND spies, sold encryption devices to foreign governments then spied on them through the machines. Crypto AG wasn't the first company owned by spy agencies and certainly won't be the last, begging the question: which other companies are run by spooks?

SPYFRONT

The millionaire spy

Highflying US fund manager Bill Browder made millions in the wake of the Soviet Union's collapse through his company Hermitage Capital Management. The cost of doing business then threatened to wipe out everything he had achieved; worse still, the money man turned corporate spy became the target of some very powerful enemies. SPYSCAPE’s Vanessa Kirby unravels this story of high finance and jeopardy.  

TRUE SPIES

Corporate hacks

The days of black bag jobs and honey traps are fading into a more ominous, invisible threat: cyber-criminals. SPYSCAPE scopes the suspects behind some of the world’s biggest corporate breaches, the hackers who hide behind secret coding, viruses, and malware.

TOP HACKS

The FBI's trojan horse

The FBI and Australian Federal Police secretly developed and operated a company, Anom, that duped criminals worldwide into using an encrypted communications platform to launder money, smuggle drugs, and fence weapons. Here’s what you need to know about Operation Greenlight/Trojan Shield.

ANOM STING

Data exploits

Private spies are everywhere, including the companies who exploit your data, using geolocation tactics, eavesdropping on conversations, and ensuring targeted adverts keep you spending. You didn’t really think those loyalty cards were doled out simply to say ‘thank you’, did you?

RETAIL SPIES

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