Documents leaked by the US National Security Agency whistleblower and published by NBC news Friday detail strategies used by the Joint Threat Research and Intelligence Group (JTRIG), a spy unit whose existence has been classified, to “destroy, deny, degrade [and] disrupt” adversaries. The slides, which were used in 2010 and 2012, showed that the JTRIG completed their mission by “discrediting” them via misinformation and hacking their communications.

The leak details two primary methods of attack, cyber operations and propaganda efforts. The propaganda missions include mass messaging and the manipulation of stories on social media platforms like Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, YouTube.

The cyber-attacks primarily include distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks

Also mentioned in the 2010 presentation is a technique known as “credential harvesting” that seeks to manipulate journalists into giving tainted information to an intelligence target.

Joel Simon, executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, told NBC the very notion of “credential harvesting” should be a “wake up call” to media personnel.
“All journalists generally are then vulnerable to the charge that they work at the behest of an intelligence agency,” he said.

Its pretty obvious loads of states spy on each other.
The crux of it is that the yanks and brits are much better at it and often at odds with what they purport to actually do in the way of spying.
Especially when it comes to aiming at individuals rather than supposed enemy states, which ofc infers that the real enemy of the western govts are their own people.

andyh wrote:
So China and Russia are poor at aiming at the individual...