East and West battle for Serbia's mass surveillance software market

Baku counts on its preferred mobile operator to control Nagorno-Karabakh's telecoms 

Ilham Aliyev's government is counting on Azerbaijani mobile operator Azercell to help it establish itself permanently in Nagorno-Karabakh, where, ultimately, it aims to install a major surveillance network.

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French internal intelligence services look at Israeli firm Cognyte's technology 

The French interior ministry is taking an interest in virtual human intelligence, or HUMINT, tools, that create and manage avatars on the darkweb. It is evaluating products from Cognyte, a spin-off of the Israeli cyberintelligence market leader Verint.

Russian-Dutch OSINT firm Social Links suffers collateral damage from Ukraine war 

The Russian-founded open source intelligence company Social Links, which is seeking to distance itself from Moscow, is taking flak over its alleged links to Russian intelligence.

Serbia not fussy in choice of partners to boost national digital programme 

The Belgrade government is as happy to call on China and the US as it is on the Emirati firm G42 to develop its digital and technological arsenal, largely funded by its Chinese partner. The UAE cloud firm, itself traditionally close to Beijing, has also turned westward for new opportunities.

Moscow, Brussels and Beijing battle for influence in Serbia 

Slovenia's recent assumption of the rotating presidency of the European Union Council has revived the debate over Serbia's membership of the EU, involving an array of consultants, intelligence services, Serbian nationalist movements, and European political personalities.