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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Skin Is Naturally Anti-microbial
2021-07-30 21:13

A number of new incidents have been reported involving CIA officers in the last year or so, a source with direct knowledge told NBC News, including a CIA officer who experienced symptoms in Poland last spring, two CIA officers allegedly hit in East Asia last fall, and incidents in London in May and December 2019.

The source said the CIA, using mobile phone location data, had determined that some Russian intelligence agents who had worked on microwave weapons programs were present in the same cities at the same time that CIA officers suffered mysterious symptoms.

About 100 CIA officers and family members are among about 200 US officials and kin sickened by "Havana syndrome", the CIA director, William Burns, said.

CIA briefing slide appearing to date from the 1960s or 1970s which shows a building being hit by microwaves from a nextdoor structure.

Russian SVR state hackers managed to breach the O365 email accounts of at least 80 percent of employees from US Attorneys' offices located in the Eastern, Northern, Southern, and Western Districts of New York.

On Friday 25th June Microsoft revealed that it had identified new activity from an Advanced Persistent Threat known as NOBELIUM targeting organisations globally.


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