Espionage

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.

VISUAL DEPICTION OF A HACKER
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

The Israeli Embassy in London places its flag at half-mast to commemorate the victims of the Meron stampede that took place on Lag Ba'omer 2021.

Two suspects plead not guilty of surveilling Israeli embassy in London on behalf of Iran

Police at the scene of a stabbing at a train station in Manchester, UK, December 2018; illustrative.

British Royal Navy member charged with preparing to disclose information to unnamed foreign power


Hezbollah-tied individual arrested on suspicion of spying for Israel in Lebanon

The individual was accused of providing intelligence to Israel that ultimately allowed the Jewish state to kill four top-tier security leaders in the terror group.

 Hezbollah members parade during a rally marking al-Quds Day, (Jerusalem Day) in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon April 5, 2024.

IDF sentences soldier to five years after spying for Iran, sending images of interceptions

The soldier was accused of passing information on to Iranian agents in exchange for financial compensation, including videos of Iranian rockets being intercepted during the war.

 The embroidered flags of Israel and the Islamic Republic of Iran (illustrative)

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.

Released from Iranian prison after 804 days, Dr. Kylie Moore-Gilbert has a message for Iran

After attending a conference in Tehran in 2018, Dr. Kylie Moore-Gilbert was arrested under false espionage charges and sent to both IRGC and public Iranian prisons. This is her story.

Dr. Kylie Moore-Gilbert speaks out on her 804 days in Iranian prisons, after being arrested in 2018 in Tehran.

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.

A company sued an employee claiming industrial espionage and fictitious sick days

The employee claimed that his wages were withheld and that he was fired via a WhatsApp message.

A company sued an employee for NIS 600 thousand claiming industrial espionage and fictitious sick days

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.

Gofman takes Mossad by storm, as spy org. ramps up plans to topple Islamic regime

New Mossad Director Roman Gofman, the first outsider to lead the spy agency since 2011, is exploring new methods to topple Iran's Islamic regime.

Mossad Director Maj. Gen. Roman Gofman attends a ceremony marking the lighting of the first Hanukkah candle of the 7th Armored Brigade at the National Library in Jerusalem, on December 14, 2025.