Spotlight | Europe, Israel, United States
How OSINT has worked its way among cyber-intelligence experts

United States
Social Links forced to plug leaks from users of its intelligence tool

The sale on the dark web of an access to the police and intelligence service-only version of Social Links' OSINT CrimeWall has revived fears of a proliferation of cyber tools. The company states it is taking the necessary steps to block access to the compromised account.

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
ADIT/Amarante regional rivalry, Herminius, CR Investigations, Lextrack, De Vinculis

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: every Wednesday, we report on events big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community.

LyonAmarante snatches regional council contract from ADIT

LondonHerminius picks new adviser

New York/Boston/WashingtonCR Investigations takes on US staff

London/ViennaNew asset hunter tuned into Central Asia?

LondonNicholas Houghton closes a chapter

France
OSINT techniques become a commodity

French open source intelligence (OSINT) specialist Epieos has set up a programme for the purchase of new techniques to enable it to offer the most comprehensive platform.

Spotlight | France, Germany, United States
Despite risks, defence AI firms turn to low-cost subcontractors to label data

Essential to train AI algorithms, labelling is a crucial stage in the intelligence cycle but remains on the margin of the sovereignty debate, despite being farmed out to third-party suppliers.

Australia, France
RAID draws on Australia's FiveCast OSINT expertise

The French police's intervention forces have opted for technology developed by the Australian open source intelligence software developer FiveCast thanks to its partnership with SAS, as the Interior Ministry opens a swathe of OSINT contracts.

South Korea
S2W pins hopes for EU breakthrough on language model trained on dark web

In mid-May, South Korean threat intelligence company S2W published research on the first language model pretrained on the dark web. Now the firm is eager to enter the European market, but experts in the field remain sceptical.

Spotlight | France
International OSINT groups vie for position with state agencies in Paris

Attracted by security trials ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, a number of leading OSINT groups based in the United States and Israel are strengthening their presence in France.

The Tech Telegraph
Belgian SIGINT, Luc Majdalani at BlackSky, Tadaweb supported by Nancy Clark in Canada

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

BrusselsBelgian army pursues SIGINT upgrades

DubaiLuc Majdalani takes over BlackSky's business development in Golf

OttawaEx-diplomat Nancy Clark joins European OSINT provider Tadaweb

Spotlight | Europe, Israel, United States
Meta threat report puts OSINT specialists under the spotlight

The US technology giant's December threat report highlights several open source intelligence (OSINT) firms, from Social Links to Cyberglobes and Avalanche, marking a shift in the relatively benevolent view of the practice observers have taken until now.

European Union, Georgia, UAE
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.

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
McLarty and Ikea, UN investigator in Manchester, Avisa in crypto, SFO's Edwards, Houghton at Strategy&

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: each week, we report on events both big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community. This week, we go to Brussels, before heading to Manchester and then on to Paris and London.

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

The Tech Telegraph
FiveCast and Operation Zero

Whether in SIGINT, GEOINT, OSINT or cyber, we report each week on developments great and small in the world of the technical intelligence providers.

Adelaide/London Titmuss and Patterson join OSINT expert FiveCast

Saint Petersburg Russian zero-day Operation Zero comes out of the woodwork

Spotlight | Bangladesh
Hasib Chowdhury, the interface between interception companies and Bangladeshi technical intelligence

British businessman Chowdhury, who heads Berkeley Advisory, is the chief architect of Bangladesh's major intelligence programmes.

United States
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.

Spotlight | Bangladesh
Bangladesh's Rapid Action Battalion acquires a Telegram communications interception system

American sanctions against Bangladesh and its Rapid Action Battalion, which has been accused by the American Treasury of carrying out extra-judicial assassinations, have not prevented the country from acquiring an interception system.

The Tech Telegraph
Anno.io, French navy, Keysight Technologies, XCI

Whether in SIGINT, GEOINT, OSINT or cyber, we report each week on developments great and small in the world of technical intelligence providers.

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.

United States
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.

United States
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.

Australia
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).

France, United States
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.

Spotlight | Israel, Ukraine
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.

Israel
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.

Israel
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.

Spotlight | Israel, Ukraine
Rayzone and ULTRA challenged by crosswinds in Ukraine

The two Israeli firms will deliver a system to counter hybrid warfare to the Ukrainian intelligence service SBU, but not everyone in Kyiv is happy with the choice of provider.

Israel
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.

France
Cyber-gendarmes focus on Darknet

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

France
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.