ALL ARTICLES - AUSTRALIA

• SYDNEY/NEW YORK - The investigator chasing a ghost investor

• PARIS - Public bank boosts export intelligence scope

• NEW YORK - Mintz still investigating Kossoff's downfall

• NEW YORK - Ex-Nardello CISO goes to Merck

• LONDON - Former FTI Barker moves to intelligence with Strix Varia

• KYIV/LARGO -  New Ukraine mission for US Army vet Parker

• KYIV/COPENHAGEN - Danish lobbyist Rud Pedersen sets up shop in Ukraine

• FRANKFURT/WASHINGTON - Germany's security ecosystem gets in gear for World Cup 2026.

• SYDNEY - Vigilant Labs rallies L3 Trenchant's exploit hunters.

• BARCELONA - German Ralf Wegener's cyber-intelligence firm Variston in Google spotlight.
  

• ABU DHABI - Anton Ivanov appointed to head Technology Innovation Institute's space research.

• PARIS - Jérôme Pasinetti appointed to head Rhea Cybersecurité France.

Cubic Digital Intelligence wins the trust of Australian Army Special Operations 

The US cyber conglomerate Cubic Corp's GEOINT subsidiary has already won a string of military contracts with the special forces in the country just months after opening its Australian branch.

• PARIS - Badaire and Barbier join startup Snowpack's advisory board

• SYDNEY - Ex-Qihoo 360 researcher Seeley joins L3Harris cyberattack lab

• ABERDEEN - US Army launches AI acquisitions programme

GRACosway lobbies for Chinese raw materials giants in Sydney 

The Australian consulting firm was recently contracted to help Chinese state-owned companies to get closer to Australian politicians.

• ADELAIDE/LONDON - Titmuss and Patterson join OSINT expert FiveCast

• SAINT PETERSBURG - Russian zero-day Operation Zero comes out of the woodwork

Space SIGINT specialist Kleos experiences turbulence 

The Luxembourg based SIGINT satellite constellation firm Kleos Space recently announced that its first cluster was out of service due to technical difficulties. This news comes at a time when a number of big contracts are up for grabs.

Australia seeks greater influence in Quad alliance 

La Trobe University in Melbourne is preparing its first edition of Quadmin: Emerging Leaders Dialogue, demonstrating Australia's desire to be more influential in decisions made by the US-created Indo-Pacific alliance...even though their initiatives continue to be financed by the US state department.

After Azimuth, Mark Dowd returns to vulnerability research with Vigilant Labs 

Vigilant Labs, a new zero-day research company set up by one of the founders of Fives Eyes alliance provider Azimuth Security, has hired its first researcher, Amat Cama, an expert in hacking mobile device modem chips.

• WASHINGTON - Bigger role for CISA in defence suppliers' cyberprotection.
  

• BALTIMORE/SYDNEY - Harley Turner takes helm of Dragos' new Australian branch.
  

• TEL AVIV - Paragon hires former NSO officer Reut Elimelech.

Canberra seeks new security accommodation with China 

Australia's incoming government, which includes several "Sino-compatible" figures, is trying out a warmer approach to relations with Beijing. The security architecture of the entire Indo-Pacific region is at stake.

Ripjar, the Australian Signals Directorate's new big data analytics provider  Free

Ripjar has landed two back-to-back contracts. The British start-up founded by former GCHQ officers provides its data fusion and analytics platform, Labyrinth, to the Australian Signals Directorate.

• BRUSSELS - Thales and PwC, the European Commission's threat intelligence providers.

• ARLINGTON/ADELAIDE - Australia's FiveCast loses US national security market guru. 

• NEW YORK - Evan Kohlmann, the second Flashpoint co-founder to jump ship.

• ARLINGTON - Faced with China, Mitchell Institute reinvents itself as a designer of drone policy.