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SURVEILLANCE & INTERCEPTION

UNITED STATES 25/01/2022

With Mnuchin on board, Satellogic can look to Gulf

Steven Mnuchin during a House Financial Services Committee hearing, when he was US Treasury Secretary, 2 December 2020. © Greg Nash/Pool/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

FRANCE 24/01/2022

Chapsvision takes up strong position in interceptions thanks to Elektron takeover

Chapsvision, which is determined to take up a dominant position among French cyber intelligence industry, has taken control of French interceptions specialist Elektron from the waning Nexa Technologies group. [...]

EUROPE ISRAEL 21/01/2022

TAG, Israeli cyber firms' bridgehead in Italy

A few days before resigning as the head of Israel's cyber agency, Igal Unna was in Italy to beef up bilateral relations. TAG Company has represented Israeli cybersecurity firms there for several years. [...]

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AUSTRIA EGYPT UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 20/01/2022

Erik Prince's shadow hovers over Egypt's secret spy plane project

JAPAN UNITED KINGDOM 20/01/2022

Former UK cyber security chief Ciaran Martin to help Britain break into Japanese market

Ciaran Martin, former head of National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). © Andrew Milligan/Press Association Images/MaxPPP

FRANCE 19/01/2022

French cyber partners Roussely and Taleb continue to grow their empire

French cyber veterans Bernard Roussely and Alexandre Taleb are quietly building themselves a small empire in France, Lebanon and Switzerland via the firms Euler Technology Solutions and Beware Cyberlabs. [...]

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UNITED STATES FRANCE 18/01/2022

US interception specialist Almenta still has strong grip on Asian market

While Almenta Group, the American company specialising in offensive cyber-intelligence, is in danger of losing its foothold in France, it is still very active in Asia, particularly in Singapore and Hong Kong. [...]

EUROPE FRANCE 17/01/2022

Italian cyber specialists pile into French market

Italian companies Area and RCS Lab are looking to expand in France and are hoping to benefit from the new SITENJ national interception platform. [...]

UKRAINE 14/01/2022

SBU contract winner Altair-775 also partner of major Western cyber companies in Kyiv

Ukrainian interceptions specialist Altair-775, which is to supply its new secure information system to Ukraine's SBU internal intelligence service, is also a leading distributor for Western companies including France's Thales group. The company is also a long-standing partner of Swiss firm Crypto AG, which is close to the CIA and other Western intelligence services. [...]

SpotlightISRAEL UKRAINE 13/01/2022

Ukraine's domestic intelligence drops Rayzone and Ultra

As large amounts of US funding pours into the country's open source intelligence sector, Ukraine's home security agency, the SBU, has decided to terminate its contract with the two Israeli firms. [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 13/01/2022

NSO affair threatens UK's cyber sales strategy in Gulf

The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office's Gulf Strategy Fund is under pressure to justify its existence. [...]

FRANCE 12/01/2022

French prisons to get anti-drone systems

The French justice ministry has chosen French companies Cerbair, KEAS and Nuances Technologies to install anti-drone systems at French prisons. Its choice of companies is not particularly surprising but will have a structuring effect on the French anti-drone market as it waits for the much bigger contract for the defence ministry's Parade programme to be awarded. [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 11/01/2022

Airbus to install new ciphering system for British Foreign Office

The Franco-German company has won a contract for a new ciphering system for Britain's Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) as London looks to deal with a growing espionage threat. [...]

UNITED STATES RUSSIA 10/01/2022

NGA contributes to Western influence counter-offensive against Wagner in Africa with Tearline

While Paris is trying to win the influence war against the Russian paramilitary group Wagner the old-fashioned way, Washington has turned to the research world and NGOs with its Tearline program. The program's latest research focuses on Wagner's various activities in Africa. [...]

SpotlightUNITED STATES EUROPE ISRAEL 06/01/2022

Wi-Fi protocol evolution is turning agencies away from dedicated interception systems

The increasing use of randomised MAC addresses has made Wi-Fi interception more difficult and tools less stable. A similar process of obfuscation of the unique identifier is being implemented by the 5G network, which does not bode well for the future use of current interception tools. [...]

NORTH AMERICA FRANCE 06/01/2022

Private sector operators take up position in greenhouse gas satellite surveillance

While some companies operate their own satellites to monitor greenhouse gas emissions, the majority rely on the surveillance capacities of public sector operators, concentrating their own resources on data exploitation. Meanwhile, emissions data is attracting interest from an increasing number of private and public sector bodies. [...]

Two satellites measuring greenhouse gas emissions. © GHGSat/Twitter

SpotlightUNITED STATES EUROPE ISRAEL 30/12/2021

How OSINT has worked its way among cyber-intelligence experts

Open-source intelligence (OSINT), considered less touchy than cyber-attacking, is less regulated and easier for goverments to showcase. However, the one-upmanship in the sector is making it increasingly difficult to distinguish between passive and active intelligence. [...]

IRAN RUSSIA 24/12/2021

Iranian cyberspecialist Cysec selling its technology from Kazan to Tehran

Founded in Tehran, Lotus Gostar Arya (or Cysec) now operates from Kazan and continues to export its cyber security tools to Iran. This comes at a time of increasing cooperation between Russia and Iran on cyber issues. [...]

SpotlightEGYPT UNITED STATES 23/12/2021

Canadian DPI firm Sandvine symbolises US double standards on spyware exports Free

Canadian DPI (deep packet inspection) specialist Sandvine, funded by the US venture capital firm Francisco Partners, a former backer of Israel's NSO Group, has not been blacklisted by the US despite its raft of deals with Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Turkey and Egypt. [...]

FRANCE 23/12/2021

DGSI looks to get ahead with predictive algorithms

After carrying out an end-of-year review of progress on its future big data analytics system OTDH, France's internal intelligence service, the DGSI, is looking to upgrade its technology capacity through the use of predictive analytics. [...]

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With Mnuchin on board, Satellogic can look to Gulf

Chapsvision takes up strong position in interceptions thanks to Elektron takeover

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Erik Prince's shadow hovers over Egypt's secret spy plane project

Former UK cyber security chief Ciaran Martin to help Britain break into Japanese market

French cyber partners Roussely and Taleb continue to grow their empire

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