The woman whose tip brought down a corrupt FBI counterintelligence chief was found dead in her Florida apartment on August 27, posting dozens of criticisms of federal officials on social media in the hours before her body was discovered.

Nathan Vilas Latsch, 29, a Defense Intelligence Agency Insider Threat Division IT specialist, pleaded guilty on August 26, 2026 to attempted transmission of national defense information after an FBI undercover officer posed as his foreign government contact and monitored two dead drops in northern Virginia before arresting him on May 29, 2025.

American journalist Thomas Pauken II admitted June 4 to a six-year campaign gathering intelligence on US political figures for China's Ministry of State Security under handler direction, and faces sentencing September 1.

Norway detained a Chinese woman in a suspected espionage case involving an alleged Chinese state-backed effort to use a Norway-registered company to establish a satellite data receiving station near strategically sensitive Arctic infrastructure.

Yemen’s authorities claim to have exposed a foreign-directed espionage network that enabled outside strikes, but the allegations remain unverified and support established political narratives.