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18.06.2026 - 20:45 [ ZDF ]

Operation Rubikon

(August 27, 2020)

Jahrzehntelang belauschten BND und CIA die verschlüsselte Kommunikation von über 100 Staaten. Die Operation „Rubikon“ wurde bis heute geheim gehalten. Sie gilt als größter Erfolg des BND.

Opfer des Lauschangriffs waren arabische und südamerikanische Länder, aber auch NATO-Partner. Sie vertrauten der Krypto-Technik eines schweizerischen Herstellers – und wurden betrogen. Welche politischen Folgen hatte das jahrelange Mitlesen geheimer Nachrichten?

Politische Handlungen durch Rubikon

Die „Rubikon“-Papiere belegen erstmals, dass BND und CIA zum Beispiel frühzeitig über den Sturz des chilenischen Präsidenten Allende 1973 und die schweren Menschenrechtsverletzungen durch die argentinische Militärjunta informiert waren. Politische Folgen, etwa in Form von Protesten der Bundesregierung, hatte das nicht.

Auch im Falklandkrieg kamen die für den Sieg der Briten notwendigen Informationen aus der Operation „Rubikon“: Der BND konnte den militärischen Funkverkehr der Argentinier entschlüsseln. Das britische Militär war so über die Bewegungen der argentinischen Streitkräfte informiert. Einer der klar belegbaren Fälle, in denen „Rubikon“ konkrete – und blutige – Konsequenzen hatte.

Kühn und skandalträchtig

Einer der größten Abnehmer für die manipulierten schweizerischen Verschlüsselungsgeräte war der Iran. Jahrzehntelang waren Deutsche und Amerikaner deshalb bestens über die geheimen Regierungskommunikationen des Ajatollah-Regimes informiert und nutzten diese Kenntnisse zum Beispiel in der Geiselaffäre, um die US-Botschaftsangehörigen freizubekommen.

Geheimdienstexperte Prof. Richard Aldrich wertete die dem ZDF exklusiv vorliegenden geheimen Akten aus. Sein Fazit: „Die Operation Rubikon war eine der kühnsten und auch skandalträchtigsten Operationen, denn über hundert Staaten zahlten Milliarden Dollar dafür, dass ihnen ihre Staatsgeheimnisse gestohlen wurden.“

Der Dokumentation liegen langjährige Recherchen von ZDFinfo, „Frontal 21“, der „Washington Post“ und der „Rundschau“ des Schweizer Fernsehens SRG zugrunde.

18.06.2026 - 20:37 [ SRF Dokus & Reportage / Youtube ]

Cryptoleaks – Wie CIA und BND mit Schweizer Hilfe weltweit spionierten | Doku | SRF Dok

(Februar 13, 2020)

Die CIA und der BND spionierten mit manipulierten Chiffriergeräten der Schweizer Firma Crypto AG jahrzehntelang mehr als 100 Staaten aus, darunter auch befreundete Länder. Dies belegen Recherchen von SRF Rundschau, ZDF und Washington Post.

m Zentrum steht ein Aktenordner mit explosivem Inhalt: 280 Seiten, bisher unbekannte Papiere der Geheimdienste CIA und BND. Sie belegen eine weltweite Geheimdienstoperation. Die geleakten Papiere werfen ein höchst fragwürdiges Licht auf die Schweiz und auf das Zuger Unternehmen Crypto AG, eine Firma für Verschlüsselungstechnik.

Über manipulierte Chiffriermaschinen der ehemaligen Verschlüsselungsfirma horchten die Geheimdienste CIA und BND jahrzehntelang über hundert Staaten ab. Im Nahen Osten, in Asien, in Südamerika und auch in Europa wurde die geheime Kommunikation befreundeter und feindlicher Staaten abgefangen und ausgewertet. Alle abgehörten Länder hatten ihre Crypto-Chiffriermaschinen im guten Glauben in der neutralen Schweiz gekauft.

Welche Folgen hatte die Überwachungsoperation auf die internationale Politik der Nachkriegszeit? Wie gingen die Geheimdienstleute der CIA und des BND vor? Wie wurden die Schweizer Chiffriergeräte manipuliert? Was wussten die Schweizer Behörden? Und was bedeutet dieser Skandal für die Schweizer Neutralität?

05.06.2026 - 21:31 [ Reuters ]

Exclusive: UK adopts SpaceX‘s Starshield for military operations, sources say

(June 2, 2026)

Britain has begun using SpaceX‘s militarised satellite network Starshield, according to two people familiar ​with the matter, making it among the first countries outside the United States to adopt Elon Musk‘s government-focused variant ‌of Starlink.
Starshield, developed for the U.S. government, is designed for military and intelligence missions with enhanced security features, while SpaceX‘s standard Starlink broadband service is aimed at consumer and commercial use.

05.06.2026 - 21:27 [ Reuters ]

Exclusive: Pentagon spars with SpaceX over Starlink price hike during Iran war

(May 26, 2026)

The ongoing disputes, which have not previously been reported, underscore how the Pentagon’s growing reliance on SpaceX is handing Musk greater leverage over a critical layer of U.S. national security – at a time when SpaceX ​is seeking to boost revenue ahead of an IPO next month that could be among the biggest in history.
Unlike consumer Starlink terminals available at stores including Walmart, SpaceX sells a military-specific version called Starshield to the Pentagon under a 2023 agreement. Starshield terminals can connect to both commercial Starlink ​satellites and a separate, more secure constellation, also called Starshield, according to a person familiar with the matter.

05.06.2026 - 02:51 [ GreyDynamics.com ]

Operation Rubicon: How the CIA and BND Spied on the World

(August 2, 2025)

Operation Rubicon was a joint covert operation carried out by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the West German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) during the Cold War. The operation involved the acquisition and operation of a Swiss company called Crypto AG, which was a leading manufacturer of encryption machines used by governments, militaries, and intelligence agencies around the world.

Under Operation Rubicon, the CIA and BND secretly purchased Crypto AG and then modified the encryption machines to allow the intelligence agencies to eavesdrop on the communications of foreign governments and intelligence services that used the machines. The operation reportedly began in the 1950s and continued until the early 2000s.

The operation was considered one of the most successful and longest-running espionage operations of the Cold War, allowing the CIA and BND to intercept and decipher sensitive communications from numerous countries, including Iran, Argentina, and Libya. However, the operation was eventually exposed in 2020 through investigative reporting by several news organizations, leading to widespread criticism of the intelligence agencies involved and calls for greater transparency and accountability in intelligence operations.

05.06.2026 - 01:55 [ ForeignPolicy.com ]

Starlink Has Privatized Geopolitics

(March 20, 2026)

Starlink is far more than a commercial connectivity service. It is strategic infrastructure that increasingly shapes how wars are fought, how states manage internal unrest, and how criminal networks operate in ungoverned spaces. What makes Starlink so politically consequential is not just its globe-spanning reach but also the governance model behind it.

A private company is now a gatekeeper in orbit, helping decide who connects as well as where, under what conditions, and with what technical constraints. In a growing number of conflicts, these decisions carry military and political effects that states struggle to replicate or control. If many strategic supply chains now depend on private firms, Starlink is an unusually concentrated case of private discretion over public security functions.

20.05.2026 - 06:35 [ Global Sumud Flotilla ]

They Tried to Demonize the Flotilla. They Exposed Their Own Crimes to the Entire World Instead.

(May 19, 2026)

The 428 abducted flotilla participants are currently unaccounted for. They have had no contact with legal counsel. They have been denied consular access. Their families have not been informed of their whereabouts.

We call on their governments and world leaders to demand their immediate and unconditional release and to ensure their right to consular and legal access without further delay.

Their detention is an extension of the same system that has kept nearly 10,000 Palestinian political prisoners and hostages held under an even more brutal architecture of confinement, coercion, and colonial violence. What has already been documented is not aberration. It is a pattern. Testimonies from flotilla participants released after the previous interception earlier this month, describe torture, physical assault, and sexual violence.

Independent rights organizations, including Save the Children, have documented that more than half of the Palestinian children detained by israel report sexual abuse, sexualized violence, and systematic torture. This pattern of sexual violence is systematically operating without interruption.

Gaza and the West Bank are where that structure is most illustrative. They are where weapons are tested, surveillance systems refined, and techniques of enclosure normalized before being exported into policing regimes, border infrastructures, prison systems, and governance models across the world.

13.05.2026 - 13:54 [ Fox News ]

China orders firms to ignore US Iran sanctions, daring US to enforce crackdown

(May 7, 2026)

A new directive, issued through China’s Commerce Ministry Sunday, invokes a 2021 „blocking statute“ that prohibits firms from complying with foreign sanctions deemed illegitimate.

13.05.2026 - 13:47 [ TKP.at ]

Vor Trump Besuch in Peking: China blockiert US-Sekundärsanktionen – Firmen sollen weiter Iran-Öl kaufen

In einem der bedeutendsten Schritte gegen die US-Wirtschaftskriegführung hat das chinesische Handelsministerium seine Unternehmen offiziell angewiesen, die US-Sanktionen gegen iranisches Öl nicht anzuerkennen, nicht durchzusetzen und nicht zu befolgen. Es handelt sich um die erste Aktivierung der 2021 erlassenen „Blocking Rules“ (Regeln zur Abwehr ungerechtfertigter extraterritorialer Anwendung ausländischer Gesetze).

27.04.2026 - 19:49 [ Znetwork.org ]

The Explicit Manifesto of Digital Fascism: Palantir and the Alliance of Monopoly Capital with the Far Right

(April 22, 2026)

The manifesto published by Palantir Technologies is neither a technical document nor an economic vision. It is an explicit political document announcing a new phase in the trajectory of digital capitalism, a phase in which it has abandoned its claim to neutrality and decided to unmask itself, revealing its full ideological face. Palantir is not an isolated case in the global technological landscape. It is one of several major technology companies that sell their technologies to systems of repression and human rights violations, and has been condemned by international human rights organizations, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, for its role in enabling forced deportations, mass surveillance, and the persecution of dissidents.

Most damning of all, documented reports have revealed a direct partnership between this company, alongside other Western technology companies such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft, and the Israeli military, providing data and targeting systems that were used in military operations on Gaza, making it an actual partner in documented war crimes against Palestinian civilians.

26.04.2026 - 16:13 [ Tagesschau.de ]

Schüsse in Hotel in Washington: Bestürzung nach Angriff bei Gala mit Trump

Nach den Schüssen während eines Gala-Dinners in Washington mit US-Präsident Donald Trump haben sich Spitzenpolitiker aus aller Welt bestürzt gezeigt. „Gewalt hat keinen Platz in einer Demokratie“, schrieb Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz im Onlinedienst X. „Wir entscheiden mit Mehrheiten, nicht mit der Waffe.“ Der Kanzler verurteile den „Anschlagsversuch“ und sei „froh, dass Präsident Trump, First Lady Melania Trump und alle Anwesenden in Sicherheit sind“.

26.04.2026 - 16:11 [ theHill.com ]

World leaders react to WHCA dinner shooting

World leaders were quick to respond after an armed man disrupted the annual White House Correspondents Association dinner on Saturday night, which led to the president and first lady being evacuated and journalists and attendees taking cover under tables.

Law enforcement exchanged fire with the gunman before he was subdued. President Trump said Saturday that the event would be rescheduled.

26.04.2026 - 15:54 [ GlobalTimes.cn ]

International community reacts to shooting incident at White House correspondents‘ dinner

World leaders reacted with messages of concern for the US President, who was rushed to safety after gunshots rang out at the White House Correspondents‘ Dinner on Saturday.

Traditional allies across the Atlantic Ocean showed support to the US leader and condemned the violent attack.

21.04.2026 - 06:27 [ CNN ]

Ex-US general explains why reopening Strait of Hormuz is harder than blocking Iran’s ports

Clark also said that Iran is aware of the strategic value of the Strait of Hormuz in negotiations: “More useful than a nuclear weapon. And they’ve used it,” he said. “And they don’t believe we have an answer for it.”

He added, “They know we don’t want to commit ground troops. They know we don’t want to take losses. We don’t want to get our ships close enough to be hit by their missiles … so this is a real tough military problem. That’s unfortunate because that’s driving their stance in the negotiations.”

19.04.2026 - 21:45 [ Heinen-ICS.de ]

Cyberangriff über Strom: Wie sensible Daten spurlos ins Stromnetz fließen

(August 22, 2020)

Datendiebe zapfen das Stromnetz des Gebäudes spurlos an, um IT-Daten als Rauschsignale aufzuzeichnen. Die geraubten Signale werden anschließend von den Datendieben mit Analysegeräten sehr professionell wieder in die digitalen Ursprungsdaten zurückgewandelt.

So können am PC eingegebene oder an IT-Peripheriegeräten verarbeitete Daten von Datendieben ausgewertet, mit anderen Datenquellen verknüpft und missbraucht werden. Diese Art des Datendiebstahls ist nicht erkennbar und nicht rekonstruierbar. Der einzige wirksame Schutz gegen solche Cyberangriffe ist das technische Vermeiden von ins Stromnetz abfließenden Daten.

19.04.2026 - 21:09 [ IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security PP(99) / Researchgate.net ]

PowerHammer: Exfiltrating Data From Air-Gapped Computers Through Power Lines

(April 2018)

In this paper we provide an implementation, evaluation, and analysis of PowerHammer, a malware (bridgeware [1]) that uses power lines to exfiltrate data from air-gapped computers. In this case, a malicious code running on a compromised computer can control the power consumption of the system by intentionally regulating the CPU utilization. Data is modulated, encoded, and transmitted on top of the current flow fluctuations, and then it is conducted and propagated through the power lines. This phenomena is known as a ‚conducted emission‘. We present two versions of the attack. Line level powerhammering: In this attack, the attacker taps the in-home power lines1 that are directly attached to the electrical outlet. Phase level power-hammering: In this attack, the attacker taps the power lines at the phase level, in the main electrical service panel. In both versions of the attack, the attacker measures the emission conducted and then decodes the exfiltrated data. We describe the adversarial attack model and present modulations and encoding schemes along with a transmission protocol. We evaluate the covert channel in different scenarios and discuss signal-to-noise (SNR), signal processing, and forms of interference. We also present a set of defensive countermeasures. Our results show that binary data can be covertly exfiltrated from air-gapped computers through the power lines at bit rates of 1000 bit/sec for the line level power-hammering attack and 10 bit/sec for the phase level power-hammering attack.

19.04.2026 - 20:59 [ 311institute.com ]

Hackers found a way to steal data from air gapped networks using powerlines

(8th May 2018)

Hot on the heels of exploits that use fan noise, infra red cameras, heat, LED lights and drones, magnetic fields and smartphones, and a multitude of other hacks to gain access to sensitive air gapped computer systems, the researchers from Israel’s Ben Gurion University have shown once again that air-gapped networks are not safe from a determined and patient attacker.

The researchers have already devised several devious techniques to extract data from isolated or air-gapped computers that store highly sensitive data and now their latest technique, dubbed PowerHammer, exploits current fluctuations flowing through the power lines supplying electricity to air-gapped computers.

The researchers have been able to exfiltrate data at a rate of 1,000 bits per second for lines connected to the target computer and 10 bits per second from the grid.

19.04.2026 - 20:51 [ International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection / ScienceDirect.com ]

Securing the green grid: A data anomaly detection method for mitigating cyberattacks on smart meter measurements

(September 2024)

Smart meters, being a vital component in the advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), provide an opportunity to remotely monitor and control power usage and act like a bridge between customers and utilities. The installation of millions of smart meters in the power grid is a step forward towards a green transition. However, it also constitutes a massive cybersecurity vulnerability. Cyberattacks on AMI can result in inaccurate billing, energy theft, service disruptions, privacy breaches, network vulnerabilities, and malware distribution.

19.04.2026 - 20:40 [ TKP.at ]

Smart Meter: Einfallstore für Cyberangriffe im Stromnetz

(April 6, 2026)

Die Studie unterstreicht, dass der Schutz kritischer Netzknoten oberste Priorität haben muss. Neben der neuen Detektionsmethode empfehlen die Autoren:

– Kompromittierte Daten gezielt zu entfernen oder zu korrigieren

– Stärkere Cybersicherheitsstandards bei der Entwicklung und dem Betrieb von Smart Metern

– Eine Kombination aus technischen und organisatorischen Maßnahmen, um die gesamte Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) abzusichern

Die wichtigste Gegenmaßnahme ist allerdings sich kein Smart Meter aufschwatzen oder aufnötigen zu lassen. Die klassischen Ferraris-Zähler sind gegen jegliche Manipulation aus der Ferne gefeit, mangels Verbindung ins Internet. Und sie senden auch keine Hochfrequenz-Strahlung aus.

29.03.2026 - 19:42 [ WarCosts.org ]

US Military Bases Around the World

The United States maintains the largest network of foreign military bases in world history — over 694 overseas installations across 112 countries and territories, plus 824 domestic bases across all 50 states. No other country comes close. The UK has 16 overseas bases. France has 11. Russia has about 20. China has 1.

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Top Countries by US Base Count

#1 Japan 87 bases
#2 Germany 79 bases
#3 Korea 60 bases
#4 Guam 33 bases
#5 Italy 30 bases
#6 Puerto rico 25 bases
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29.03.2026 - 12:18 [ Nicolas J.S. Davies / Mintpress.com ]

Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen: Calculating the Millions-High Death Toll of America’s Post-9/11 Wars

(26.4.2018)

As Barbara Lee presciently warned her colleagues before she cast her lone dissenting vote in 2001, we have “become the evil we deplore.” But these wars have not been accompanied by fearsome military parades (not yet) or speeches about conquering the world. Instead they have been politically justified by “information warfare” to demonize enemies and fabricate crises, and then waged in a “disguised, quiet, media free” way, to hide their cost in human blood from the American public and the world.

After 16 years of war, about 6 million violent deaths, 6 countries utterly destroyed and many more destabilized, it is urgent that the American public come to terms with the true human cost of our country’s wars and how we have been manipulated and misled into turning a blind eye to them – before they go on even longer, destroy more countries, further undermine the rule of international law and kill millions more of our fellow human beings.