DGSE

France
The 'little secrets' of the DGSE's 2024 budget

The documents used to prepare the French foreign intelligence service's 2024 budget allocation give a number of indications regarding the agency's functioning and operations.

France
Frogtrust's difficulties prompt reorganisation of Cristal Group's cyber activities

Ex-lawyer Kevin Rivaton's Cristal Group is parting ways with former DGSE technical director Yves Mathian and restructuring its cyber activities under its Cristal Celteam subsidiary.

France
Budget documents confirm French intelligence services' construction fever

Work is set to start on the DGSE's new HQ, as the DSRD prepares to move into its new home and Tracfin to open a second site. Documents used to prepare the government's 2024 budget also show that the intelligence services are being given greater priority.

France
Société Générale: security chief Antoine Creux's succession in limbo

A former commando frogman was shortlisted to succeed Antoine Creux as head of security at Société Générale, but not any more.

France
DGSE recruitment drive hampered by security vetting procedures

France's external intelligence service has announced plans to recruit 800 new staff in 2023 but some candidates are being discouraged by its cumbersome recruitment procedures

France
DGSE launches legal action against second ex-spy over memoir

After several weeks' hesitation, the French external intelligence service has taken legal action against two former agents, whom it accuses of breaching official defence secrets in the books they have written about their experiences.

The Intelligence Gazette
French Senate, Taipei, AUKUS, Houthis

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community. This week, we bring news from France, Taiwan, London and Riyadh.

FranceDGSE monitors battle for chair of French Senate foreign affairs and defence commission

ChinaBeijing ramps up media presence in Taiwan

United KingdomDavid Williams, AUKUS's mainstay in London

IsraelRiyadh eagerly awaits data on the Houthis from Mossad

France, West Africa
Suneris's African contracts in turmoil

French cyber-intelligence firm Suneris has seen its customer states fall, one after the other, in the recent series of coups in Africa. Not only are its contracts at risk, but the confidentiality of its technologies could be breached.

The Tech Times
France's DGSE turns to LLM, US cracks down on cyber industry, Preligens' Rennes changes

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

Paris French intelligence service focuses on Large Language Models

Washington Congress ponders cyber-intelligence sanctions

Rennes Preligens restructures ahead of funding round

Europe, Israel
Intellexa builds new cyber-intelligence empire thanks to rivals' dropped contracts

Cyber-intelligence veteran Tal Dilian is increasingly in the media spotlight after Washington blacklisted his companies, potentially hampering his rapid success over the last two years, achieved by picking up contracts from competitors beset by legal challenges.

France
DGSE's sacking of defiant official on internal security grounds overruled in court

A French DGSE staffer sacked after making a private trip to Iran has been reinstated by an administrative court.

The Tech Times
Snowpack goes global, Beacon Red in Singapore, MIL Corp helps NAWCAD in cyber

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.

Paris Snowpack turns to RB 42 for international business development

Singapore Beacon Red showcases offensive cyber technologies

Washington NAWCAD draws on MIL Corp's cyber expertise

France
Intelligence services watchdog taps into Socialist Party networks

To renew his team, the president of the French security services watchdog CNCTR Serge Lasvignes has tapped into the French Socialist Party networks.

France
French defence services company's takeover manoeuvring takes political turn

ADIT's planned takeover of DCI has sparked a flurry of manoeuvring in the French parliament, as competitors look forward to the parastatal operator becoming just another company.

The Intelligence Gazette
FSB in the Black Sea, French cyber labs, Warsaw's spy clinic, US's emotional intel training

Appointments, reforms and key issues: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community, from Moscow to Warsaw, and Paris to Washington.

Russia FSB border guards rule over Black Sea coast

France Britanny's new cyber lab

Poland Military intelligence clinic gets new status

United States Emotional intelligence course for elite commandos

France, Syria, United States
Lafarge targeted by new lawsuit in the US from families of Islamic State victims

The families of 15 US citizens who were victims of the Islamic State have filed a complaint against the French cement company Lafarge, which admitted to helping fund the terrorist organisation in Syria from 2013 to 2014.