Category: India

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Cyberwar

Indian Journalists Say They’ve Been Targeted by NSO Spyware

The Columbia Journalism review reports that five Indian journalists have been notifed by WhatsApp of attempts to hack their phone. In October 2019, WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook, sued the Israeli technology firm NSO Group in a United States federal court and accused the company of exploiting a vulnerability in WhatsApp to enable its...

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RAW

India’s Intelligence Agency Steps Out of Shadows

(From Top World Intelligence Agencies) As Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserts Indian control over the disputed territory of Kashmir, India’s intelligence service has gained new prominence as an instrument of Modi’s nationalist agenda. The current chief of R&AW is Samant Goel, a career intelligence officer who was appointedModi in June 2019. The former chief of...

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Maulana Masood Azhar, head of Pakistan's militant Jaish-e-Mohammad party, attends a pro-Taliban conference organised by the Afghan Defence Council in Islamabad

Israel’s Mossad Joins India’s R&AW Seeking to Finish Masood Azhar

RAW stands for Research and Analysis Wing, which is India’s version of the CIA, it s foreign intelligence service. Masood Azhar is the founder of Jaish-e-Mohammed, the fundamentalist Islamic group that recently struck with deadly effect in Kashmir. India is looking for help from Israel’s Mossad and Israel is glad to provide it. Because of...