RUSSIA has unleashed a shadowy new spy unit tasked with sabotage, cyber attacks and assassinations across Europe, Western intelligence officials say. The Department of Special Tasks – or SSD ...

Now in his third term as president, Putin continues to fund and facilitate ever-bolder cyber and information operations, many of which draw clear parallels to historical KGB active measures in their ...

Defectors from the Soviet regime informed Western powers of the KGB’s tactics, including its penchant for difficult-to-detect poisonings. But its power wasn’t only wielded physically.

RUSSIA has unleashed a shadowy new spy unit tasked with sabotage, cyber attacks and assassinations across Europe, Western intelligence officials say. The Department of Special Tasks - or SSD - is ...