BND chief M. J\u00e4ger has set about tackling an ambitious job: restoring the German intelligence service\u2019s reputation as a powerful spy agency with a far-reaching espionage network capable of operating anywhere in the world, including carrying out sabotage. To this end, J\u00e4ger has been sounding out government officials and Bundestag members on expanding the BND\u2019s authority, its budget, and headcount.<\/p>\n
J\u00e4ger has pinned down the BND\u2019s main areas of operation as actively recruiting assets and scooping up intelligence across various regions of the world, as well as worming its way into foreign critical information and communication networks. The BND has started to tap into personnel from German diplomatic missions, offices of party foundations abroad, and commercial organizations for intelligence purposes \u2013 including in Chile, Mexico, Canada, Spain, Poland, Romania, Ethiopia, South Africa, Kazakhstan, India, Indonesia, and other countries. These people have been tasked with getting their hands on classified information and sniffing out potential recruitment targets in the countries where they\u2019re posted.<\/p>\n
To ramp up its activities in cyberspace, the BND is looking to set up a unit capable of carrying out both cyber-attack and cyber-espionage operations, much like the U.S. National Security Agency. To that end, extra funding has been channeled into the BND\u2019s Crypto and Cyber Technologies Center, located in the Melem district south of Bonn. The Center\u2019s job is to get to grips with cutting-edge technologies and then put them to use: hacking into encrypted messengers, tracking financial transactions, tightening the leash on users\u2019 activities in the information space, and monitoring communication flows going in and out of Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BND chief M. J\u00e4ger has set about tackling an ambitious job: restoring the German intelligence service\u2019s reputation as a powerful spy agency with a far-reaching espionage network capable of operating anywhere in the world, including carrying out sabotage. To this end, J\u00e4ger has been sounding out government officials and Bundestag members on expanding the BND\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[3222,4353,2853,3422,105],"class_list":["post-3300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-blog","tag-bnd","tag-bnd-2","tag-germanija","tag-martin-eger","tag-terrorizm"],"yoast_head":"\n