Lithuania's State Security Department recommends people who might be of interest to Russian special services not to use the Yandex.Taxi ride-sharing app.
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The governments of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania face an increasingly large espionage threat from the Russian Federation. Naturally, this threat includes the introduction or recruitment of Russian agents to engage in classical espionage activities like ferreting out classified information from gover...
Lithuania's State Security Department is skeptical about the possibility to introduce electronic voting, says the department's director Darius Jauniškis.
Russia's Ambassador to Lithuania Alexander Udaltsov was Monday summoned to the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry.
Three citizens of Lithuania have been detained in Lithuania since December on the suspicion of spying for Russia in return for financial remuneration, the law-enforcement said on Thursday.
All Lithuanian critical IT system managers that had Kaspersky Lab products on their computers have stopped using the Russia-based company's software after the government said in late December that it might pose a threat to national security.
A Vilnius court has completed hearing the spying case of high-ranking Russian intelligence officer Nikolai Filipchenko whom prosecutors want found guilty and sent to prison for 10 years and six months.
Vilnius University's Institute of International Relations and Political Science (VU TSPMI) has warned its students that a Russian intelligence officer mentioned in Lithuanian intelligence bodies' report on national security threats has been seen attending the institute's events.
Lithuania's State Security Department last year recommended suspending investment of six companies in connection to economic and energy security due to their possible links with Russia.
The scope of national security threats is changing with the European Union and NATO becoming the main target, the head of the Lithuanian parliament's Committee on National Security and Defence said on Wednesday after a meeting at the State Security Department.
Spying gear of Russian intelligence services was this year found in computers of three Lithuanian state institutions, says Rimtautas Černiauskas, director of the National Cyber Security Service.
The government's input in Lithuania's cyber security is lacking, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said after meeting with the new Cabinet on Wednesday.
Nikolai Philiptchenko, a high-ranking Russian intelligence agent charged with espionage against Lithuania, on Friday refused to testify in his trial in the Vilnius Regional Court.
