German police arrested a Russian scientist working at an unidentified university, accusing him of spying for Moscow, prosecutors said on Monday, in a case that risks further inflaming bilateral tensions.
German prosecutors said Thursday they have filed spying charges against a German man suspected of passing on data from parliament to Russian secret services.
German data protection authorities
said Wednesday they fined the Swedish clothing chain more than €35 million over illegal 'surveillance' of its employees.
German prosecutors on Wednesday said they were investigating three people who allegedly spied for China, with media reporting that a former German EU diplomat was among the suspects.
Austrian prosecutors confirmed Friday that they had shelved an investigation into allegations that Germany's BND secret
service had systematically spied on politicians, international organisations and companies on Austrian territory.
A German administrative court ruled Tuesday that the country's domestic intelligence agency had illegally declared that it was stepping up watch of the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD).
Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday inaugurated
the new, fortress-like Berlin headquarters of Germany's scandal-plagued BND foreign intelligence service.
Cyber spies belonging to the Russian hacker group "APT28" are said to have attacked the federal government's sensitive data network. This is what we know so far.
Germany’s Interior Minister wants to force tech and car companies to provide the German security services with hidden digital access to cars, computers, phones and more, according to a media report from Friday.
A Swiss man accused of spying on
German tax officials admitted to the espionage operation on Thursday, and told a court he acted out of "patriotism" as well as for profit.
A Swiss man accused of spying on German officials who were hunting tax cheats goes on trial in Frankfurt on Wednesday, in a convoluted case that has strained ties between Bern and Berlin.
Prosecutors in Germany on Thursday closed an investigation into whether US and British intelligence services systematically carried out extensive spying on the country's citizens, citing a lack of hard evidence.
A former German intelligence agent who was also an ex-gay porn actor was on Tuesday given a one-year suspended sentence for attempting to share state secrets while pretending to be a jihadist online.
A German intelligence agent on Tuesday said he pretended to be a jihadist planning an attack in online chatrooms because he was bored, as he went on trial for attempted treason.
Germany's foreign intelligence service long spied on numerous official and business targets in the United States, including the White House, Spiegel weekly reported Thursday.
Should Germany's spy agencies be allowed to watch over minors radicalized by extremist Muslim clerics? That was the question being discussed by interior ministers on Tuesday.
A Swiss spy allegedly monitoring German finance officials who hunt cross-border tax cheats also ran a mole in a state finance ministry office, media reports said on Thursday.
A Swiss MP has confirmed that the spy who was arrested in Germany last week was working for the Swiss federal intelligence service (FIS) at the time of his surveillance activities.
Berlin on Tuesday asked the Swiss ambassador to clarify the case of an alleged Swiss spy suspected of monitoring German finance investigators who pursue cross-border tax cheats.
German media reported on Thursday that Angela Merkel's Chancellery has been included in an ongoing investigation into a recent WikiLeaks release of confidential documents.
Germany is investigating 20 people for allegedly spying on followers of an exiled preacher targeted by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government.
UPDATE: German prosecutors announced an investigation on Tuesday into claims that Turkish agents are spying on alleged followers of exiled preacher Fethullah Gülen in Germany.
