After Flashpoint, Laith Alkouri launches cyberintelligence solutions distributor

• 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. 

Online investigator Silobreaker to work for the young Swedish anti-fake news agency 

The Swedish-British data analysis company Silobreaker is to provide an open source intelligence platform to the the anti-disinformation agency Myndigheten för Psykologiskt Försvar. This comes at a time when the country is living in fear of interference from Russia in the run-up to this year's parliamentary elections.

Riyadh uses Spire Solutions deal to attract fresh cyber education capacity 

Dubai-based cyber systems distribution group Spire Solutions, which has teamed up with Saudi Arabia's leading cyber training body, the SAFCSP, brings with it its own army of experts. This will enable Riyadh to reduce its dependence on US instructors, and boost Haboob, the company running its cyber offensive activities.

Pangu Lab, Chinese ally of Singapore's zero-day reseller Coseinc, exposes NSA cyber operations 

Close to Singapore's zero-day vulnerabilities broker Coseinc and Chinese cybersecurity giant Qi An Xin, China's Pangu Lab has published a lengthy report on a threat campaign attributed to the NSA-linked advance persistent threat group Equation Group.

Alliance of Jaitly, Kinetic and Pegasus makes push into UAE cyber 

Although the UAE is developing its own intelligence technology industry it continues to attract distributors of foreign solutions, such as Vikrant Jaitly, Kinetic and Pegasus.