UAE
How the Wegener-Jayaraman duo extended their cyber empire to the UAE

The Tech Telegraph
OSINT Industries expands, Operation Zero hunting for researchers, French SL450 target drone, Variston goes into liquidation

From SIGINT to GEOINT and OSINT, with a dose of cyber, every Thursday we report on events big and small that matter in the community of technical intelligence providers.

LondonOSINT Industries poised to buy The OSINT Newsletter

Saint PetersburgOperation Zero casts wide net for zero-day researchers

TulleSpare parts hard to find for French army's target drone

BarcelonaVariston shuts up shop

Spain
Ex-Variston zero-day experts regroup at Paradigm Shift

The fallout of Google's accusations has left the Spanish cyber intelligence firm floundering and its zero-day vulnerability hunters leaving to new ventures.

UAE
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.

Europe
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.

Spotlight | UAE
Tahnoon places his cronies to spearhead cyber offensive flagship CPX

Abu Dhabi's national security adviser is readying Digital 14 spinoff CPX's troops for battle by appointing four UAE cyber sector strongmen to its board, strengthening connections to Group 42.