SURVEILLANCE & INTERCEPTION

Cyber export specialists enjoy booming legal advice market 

Facing tougher export controls, Israeli cyberintelligence companies are in increasing need of help navigating regulations. Specialist legal advisers are making the most of a flourishing, niche market.

• WASHINGTON - Is the US clamping down on the cyber intelligence industry?

• MUNICH - Fabian Kaiser takes over ISTARI Global's office in Munich

• PARIS - Sacha Bailly, French Navy and Airbus veteran takes helm of Dataminr's defence activities in France

• BRUSSELS - Intelligence oversight committee gives green light to Belgian spyware development

Cognyte and Omaha police and firefighters' pension fund fall foul of Meta's crusade 

A new episode in the tumult shaking the virtual human intelligence sector has been playing out in a New York courtroom this month. The city of Omaha police and firefighters pension fund has accused Cognyte of failing to reveal its activities in the sector, which it says are behind the company's poor stock exchange performance.

Synesis fights sanctions and informational attacks from Brussels to Warsaw 

Bypol, a grouping of anti-Lukashenko law enforcement officers in exile, has intensified its attacks on social media and keeps lobbying in the EU against the Belarusian facial recognition software developer.

Disbanded threat intelligence firm AdvIntel staff regroup at Red Sense 

Close colleagues of AdvIntel's late founder Vitali Kremez have migrated to Red Sense, an intelligence firm tracking threats, especially from Russia and Russian-speaking countries.

Influx of Russian hackers benefits Abu Dhabi's cyber offensive capabilities 

Beacon Red, the Edge Group conglomerate's Emirati cyber subsidiary, has hired a wave of cyber engineers fleeing Russia after the invasion of Ukraine. Intelligence Online understands the Russian recruits are being housed on a site separate from the rest of the company.

Erik Prince builds up small cyber empire 

The co-founder of the private security firm Frontier Services Group Erik Prince has launched into cyber with two new companies, one specialising in secure communications and the other in cyber intelligence. He has roped in several cyber veterans to help him.

Paragon carves new place for Israeli cyber in Singapore 

Paragon, backed by former PM Ehud Barak, recently landed a major contract in Singapore, confirming its status as the new star of Israeli cyber-intelligence.

• EDMONTON - Canada's Wyvern appoints two US vice-presidents

• WASHINGTON - Meta hires specialist lobbyists for crusade against OSINT

• DUBAI - Former Area VP Braccioli takes DigitalPlatforms to UAE

• BRUSSELS - NATO issues tender for OSINT early warning platform
  

NorthStar lights way for China to enter Saudi Arabian GEOINT 

Star.vision, founded and operated by veterans of Chinese telecoms company ZTE, is carving a place for itself in Saudi Arabia thanks to the startup NorthStar, which recently joined the Saudi Space Commission's Space Accelerator Programme.

Cypriot firm TRG sets sights on London 

TRG, a data analysis firm based in Cyprus and well-known in Latin America, is making baby steps to enter the European market, starting with hiring UK natives.

OceanX helps Riyadh boost best up-and-comers in GEOINT 

The Saudi Space Commission has given OceanX the difficult task of developing national geospatial intelligence via an accelerator programme with high ambitions and meagre means.

Commercial cyber bosses Ralf Wegener and Ramanan Jayaraman operate Singapore-based Nanostrea 

Still under the radar despite the exposure of its sister company Variston by Google's Threat Intelligence Group (TAG), Nanostrea is part of a group of cyber companies operated by the discreet business partners Ralf Wegener and Ramanan Jayaraman.

• PARIS - Stevan Perrot joins Sahar as new COO

• MUNICH - German military wants to ramp up laser communication capacity

• BRUSSELS - GMVIS Skysoft and Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre provide aviation cybersecurity skills to European Defence Agency