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espionage

noun as in spying

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These kinds of attacks have been used in sophisticated espionage campaigns aimed at cloning websites to trick victims into handing over their passwords, which hackers use to get access to company networks to steal information.

Blake spent nearly a decade leading a double life before he was arrested, tried and sentenced to 42 years in prison for espionage.

I would push back a little bit on the use of the term corporate espionage as opposed to competitive intelligence.

From Fortune

In June 2018 a jury finds him guilty of espionage, and he is later sentenced to 20 years in prison.

The move marks an escalation of regulatory involvement in the espionage charges, which also triggered probes by Swiss prosecutors.

From Fortune

That is why I visited my relatives in Iran in 2011, when I was unjustly arrested and charged with espionage.

In 2011, he was arrested while visiting his grandmother in Iran, charged with espionage, and sentenced to death.

The crime-fighting penguins, says the trailer, are “masters of the skies, espionage, and aerial assault.”

The Spies Next Door By Matt Mendelsohn - Washingtonian Great espionage stories are hiding in neighborhoods all over Washington.

Whatever skills it takes to succeed in espionage or racketeering, I patently lack.

Espionage we can still command—the best, perhaps, in Europe—because here we use a different class of material.

By its construction, the cell of Bezenecq the Rich gave special facilities for such espionage.

By this means he not only kept his senses keyed to a high point, but made his espionage nearer perfect than his friend had done.

He will see a whole civil service turned into a bureau of information, a department of espionage.

The custom of espionage has made him suspect that others are as watchful as himself.

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On this page you'll find 10 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to espionage, such as: intelligence, reconnaissance, shadowing, tailing, secret service, and undercover operations.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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