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Vietnam
Zalo, Vietnam's Facebook, at centre of battle to control information

Vietnam's Communist Party is piling the pressure on Vietnamese digital companies to apply cybersecurity legislation. The first collateral victim looks set to be VNG, which is developing the application Zalo, as the countries' sovereign ministries engage in a battle for influence.

United States
Mexican cartels inadvertently come to aid of US Article 702 on interceptions

The fight against drug trafficking from Mexico, the object of growing attention in Washington, has become a priority for the US intelligence community, as well as providing an argument in favour of extending its powers to intercept US-foreign communications.

Russia, Ukraine
The delicate coexistence of Russia's industrial emissaries in the Donbass

Andrey Shpilenko is little by little becoming a key player in the infrastructure projects being coordinated by deputy prime minister Marat Khusnullin. Locally, however, he has to find a place for himself among the other unofficial emissaries who control the Donbass's industrial activities.

United Kingdom
Welsh Water looks to get up to speed on hybrid warfare

A British cybersecurity company has been called in by Welsh drinking water distributor Welsh Water to help it raise its awareness of the threat posed to water supplies by hybrid warfare-style attacks.

Balkans, United States
USCYBERCOM and USAID beef up European and Balkan cyber protection

USAID is to launch a new programme to strengthen Ukrainian and Balkan cyber defences, an initiative that chimes with the US Cyber Command's partnerships forged in the region since the start of Russia's war on Ukraine.

The Tech Telegraph
Neptune Silo chooses ManTech, Galileo's second generation, Senate blind spot on USCYBERCOM partners

From SIGINT to GEOINT and OSINT and a dose of cyber, each week we report on events both big and small that matter in the community of technical intelligence providers.

QuanticoManTech, top provider to NCIS's Neptune Silo unit

Brussels/MadridTecnobit to handle Galileo's second-generation secure communications

WashingtonSenate blurry on US Cyber Command's cyber intelligence operations