GCHQ
Description
(Wikipedia) GCHQ gains its intelligence by monitoring a wide variety of communications and other electronic signals. For this, a number of stations have been established in the UK and overseas. The listening stations are at Cheltenham itself, Bude, Scarborough, Ascension Island, and with the United States at Menwith Hill. Ayios Nikolaos Station in Cyprus is run by the British Army for GCHQ.
As revealed by Edward Snowden in The Guardian, GCHQ spied on foreign politicians visiting the 2009 G-20 London Summit by eavesdropping phonecalls and emails and monitoring their computers, and in some cases even ongoing after the summit via keyloggers that had been installed during the summit.
Other publicly exposed major APT activities from GCHQ involve the wholesale worldwide spying from programs such as, together with Equation Group, INCENSER, where various international Internet trunks were tapped.
Names
| Name | Name-Giver |
|---|---|
| GCHQ | real name |
| Government Communications Headquarters | real name |
Country
Sponsor
State-sponsored
Motivation
- Information theft and espionage
First Seen
1919
Observed Sectors
Observed Countries
Tools
Operations
- 2009: GCHQ intercepted foreign politicians’ communications at G20 summits https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jun/16/gchq-intercepted-communications-g20-summits
- 2010: Operation Socialist Breach of the infrastructure of the Belgian telecommunications company Belgacom. https://theintercept.com/2014/12/13/belgacom-hack-gchq-inside-story/
Information
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCHQ
- https://www.electrospaces.net/2014/11/incenser-or-how-nsa-and-gchq-are.html
Other Information
Uuid
9d92be76-3493-4c22-a22c-73e34bb2bb66
Last Card Change
2020-07-17