{"id":2239,"date":"2019-01-16T16:25:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T16:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackopspartners.com\/?p=2239"},"modified":"2019-01-16T16:25:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T16:25:57","slug":"u-s-spies-to-americans-china-and-russia-are-coming-to-get-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackopspartners.com\/u-s-spies-to-americans-china-and-russia-are-coming-to-get-you\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Spies to Americans: China and Russia Are Coming to Get You"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yes, the Russians will get you, if the Chinese don\u2019t get you first. That\u2019s the message from U.S. spies who are tired of the naivete that keeps leading to devastating cyberhacks.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Packing for an overseas business trip? U.S. intelligence agencies want you to leave your phone and laptop at home. Their message: Spies are everywhere, and they are out to get you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMake no mistake, American companies are squarely in the crosshairs of well-financed nation-state actors,\u201d said William Evanina, director of the federal government\u2019s National Counterintelligence and Security Center, in a news release that almost certainly went into the delete bin in a government-shutdown-focused Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His stern warning was accompanied by a slew of online information released under the banner \u201cKnow the risk, Raise your shield<\/a>,\u201d one of those dorky government slogans in the \u201cSee something, say something\u201d vein aimed at making all of us just a little more paranoid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This may sound rich coming from the intelligence community after the uncomfortable revelations of post-9\/11 spying on Americans courtesy of fugitive NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who now makes his home in Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the opening advice the campaign offers is likely to elicit a yawn: Strengthen your password, lock down your social media accounts, and delete suspicious emails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It gets more interesting in the video section, with the added benefit of some amusingly wooden acting. One skit called \u201cHuman Targeting<\/a>\u201d shows how a foreign spy studies up on his quarry at a trade conference, then presents himself as an economic analyst who pretends to be an alum from the same university\u2013information the spy picked up from social media. The spook tries to get the target to give him unclassified but sensitive company information. The gormless American finally gets suspicious and reaches out to his in-house company security who tell him, yup, you\u2019re likely being played by a foreign intelligence operative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n