Berkeley Research Group, which has been managing the fund behind Israeli cyber firm NSO since last year, has hired private investigators to shed light on the company's activities amid a legal wrangle with NSO's shareholders.
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Cybersecurity The well-connected Suwaidi family failed last month in its bid to sue its insurance company over a "lost" ship. The clan lies at the heart of labyrinthine interests that tie it to Abu Dhabi's royal dynasty.
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Corporate Intel The influential president of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov has been able to use his political contacts and connections in the energy sector from his time as chairman of the oil company Tatneft to open new export routes for Russian products.
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Corporate Intel Ankara, bent on regional reconciliation, is hoping to finalise the normalisaion of its relations with Cairo. It is ready to concede on the issue of extraditing exiled Muslim Brotherhood members, a non-negotiable condition for Egypt.
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Agencies Since the unrest in Transnistria at the end of April, the media and international community have kept an eye on Moldova. Intelligence agencies in the country are worried about their cyber capacities, despite a boost from Chisinau's Israeli and Western allies, which has increased in recent weeks.
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Defence Tucked into the security portfolio of private equity investor Heligan Group, whose senior team includes former National Crime Agency director Keith Bristow, is the up-and-coming British zero-day vulnerability research firm Interrupt Labs.
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Cybersecurity Over the years, the discreet financier has become the behind-the-scenes strategist at the heart Tahnoon bin Zayed's vast investment empire, earning her a seat on the board of numerous Abu Dhabi investment funds.
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