Glossary of Eavesdropping Devices – Common Terms

By Verrimus / 29th May 2025 / Comments Off on Glossary of Eavesdropping Devices – Common Terms

🔊 Audio Surveillance / Listening Devices 🎥 Visual Surveillance / Watching Devices 📡 Tracking and Transmission Devices 🕵️‍♂️ Colloquial / Fictional / Espionage-Inspired Terms 🧳 Everyday Objects Often Used as Concealment (Contextual Terms) These aren’t device names per se, but frequently used to hide ‘bugs’ and referred to often as ‘trojan’ devices or concealments:

Knowing How to Bug Someone Improves Bug Detection

By Verrimus / 30th January 2025 / Comments Off on Knowing How to Bug Someone Improves Bug Detection

How does knowing how to bug someone, improve a TSCM operator’s skill set? Staying ahead of adversaries requires more than just TSCM equipment and experience—it demands a deep understanding of the very techniques used by hostile actors. This is why all Technical Surveillance Counter Measures (TSCM) operators should undergo a Technical Surveillance Attack Methodology Briefing…

Have You Heard of Project Acoustic Kitty?

By Verrimus / 16th November 2022 / Comments Off on Have You Heard of Project Acoustic Kitty?

What was Project Acoustic Kitty? Bugged by a surgically altered cat?! We’re guessing most TSCM professionals don’t automatically consider the source of an eavesdropping attack to involve a family pet. Discussions in the Verrimus Operational TSCM Training Facility today centred around imagining what other domestic animals could be turned into viable eavesdropping attacks. Goldfish seem…