How OSINT has worked its way among cyber-intelligence experts

• BRUSSELS - Belgian army pursues SIGINT upgrades

• DUBAI - Luc Majdalani takes over BlackSky's business development in Golf

• OTTAWA - Ex-diplomat Nancy Clark joins European OSINT provider Tadaweb

EU supplying Georgia with cyber tools via UN and distributor SAT 

The European Union (EU) has decided to supply cyber arms to EU membership applicant Georgia. It is supplying systems from Emirati forensics and cyber intelligence systems distributor Scientific Analytical Tools (SAT) via the United Nations Office for Project Services.

• BRUSSELS - Ikea to turn to McLarty over possible Belarusian prisoner links?

• MANCHESTER - New investigation firm for the UK's North West

• PARIS - Avisa Partners counts on fledgling RAID Square for crypto-investigations

• LONDON - Former SFO Kellie Edwards goes solo

• LONDON - Houghton advises Strategy&, drops Crossword

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

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

Departement of State's intelligence bureau increases OSINT use to support US diplomacy 

The Department of State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research is investing in open source intelligence tools to help the Biden administration's new intelligence declassification and publication strategy.

• RESTON - Brain drain at Anno.io.

• PARIS/BREST - Athanor to renew French navy AIS.
  

• NEW YORK - US electronic warfare specialist Keysight Technologies loses CTO.
  

• AALBORG - Danish DPI firm XCI reorganises sales team.
  

NATO moves ahead with intelligence fusion platform 

While the war in Ukraine continues to monopolise its attention, NATO is pressing on with the creation of an Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance (ISR) platform that will bring together open source, spatial imagery and other categories of intelligence data.

CIA rolls out well-oiled plan on familiar turf in Ukraine 

Engrossed in Europe, US intelligence has increased its operations in Ukraine. It has considerable scope of action in the country forged from eight years of building relations with and providing support to its Ukrainian homologues.

Intel 471 lands new contract in Australia with police 

Founded by a former Australian police officer and a US Marines counterintelligence officer, Intel 471 is already well established in the antipodean country, where it works with the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD).

Emirati big data specialist expands European footprint  Free

The Abu Dhabi-based big data analytics firm, which has so far kept out of the limelight, will attend ISS World Europe this June with plans to grow in Ukraine in addition to its base in Poland.

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.

After setbacks, Candiru makes timid public entrance 

Blacklisted by the US and exposed by the cybersecurity firm Eset, Israel's Candiru will break with its usual discretion to present its technology at interceptions trade fair ISS World.

Cellebrite buys Digital Clues to plug offensive OSINT gap 

The Israeli-US cyber-intelligence specialist has taken control of a Swiss-based developer founded by Mati Kochavi to keep up the pace in the fiercely competitive field of forensics, where firms such as Grayshift and MSAB are becoming increasingly proactive.

Founders of OSINT specialist BLER SYSTEMS embark on new adventures with Forenza and Espy 

Israeli company Espy, which, despite its young age and its founders' lack of intelligence experience, has great open source intelligence-gathering cababilities, looks to have close links with Forenza, another Israeli company in the same field.

Cyber-gendarmes focus on Darknet 

The French Gendarmerie Nationale's cyber-crime unit, the Centre de Lutte

DGSE hires Aleph-Networks to scour dark web 

The external intelligence agency has enlisted a private service provider to help its teams monitor the non-referenced part of the web.