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France
Viginum slots into France administrative counterintelligence landscape

President Emmanuel Macron's anti-fake news unit has joined a crowded landscape where various roles overlap.

Europe, France
Judicial appeals pile up against police EncroChat "digital infiltration"

A number of appeals have been filed in Europe following the probe into users of the encrypted communications network. In the latest episode, France's Constitutional Council will examine the validity of evidence collected by police who infiltrated users' phones.

France, United States
France and US hold talks against backdrop of tightened cyber regulation

Cyber experts from Paris and Washington spoke on 13 and 14 January in an effort to soothe growing tensions between both countries over a number of key cyber intelligence issues.

France
Construction conglomerates fight for pole position to build intel services' new HQs

France's internal and external intelligence agencies have begun drawing up plans for their future headquarters, to be located at either end of Paris. Both are now in the process of selecting constructors for these two major public contracts.

France
ChapsVision takes up strong position in interceptions thanks to Elektron takeover

ChapsVision, which is determined to take up a dominant position among French cyber intelligence industry, has taken control of French interceptions specialist Elektron from the waning Nexa Technologies group.

The Agencies' Gazette
DGSE, Kazakhstan's KGB

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community from London to Paris via Nur-Sultan.

Paris the DGSE adopts a TREX

Nur-Sultan the new KNB master's rise signals victory for the Tokayev camp

Paris DGSE more careful on the internet than DGSI

France
Elysée Palace weighs in to solve French intel staffing woes

Understaffed units, top-heavy management, recruitment difficulties and brain drain are among the human resources challenges that intelligence coordinator Laurent Nunez's team has been entrusted with tackling.

Saudi Arabia, South Korea
Seoul uses influential agents to break into defence

If China, much to Washington's dismay, is pushing hard to make its mark on Saudi Arabia's sovereign markets, the real winners of Riyadh's new interest in Asia remain, for now, South Korean.

France
Macron gets intelligence services battle ready to protect elections from potential foreign interference

Unlike previous presidential polls, the Elysée is mobilising intelligence services on an unprecedented scale to secure the next election. Behind France's dedicated new agency Viginum, the DGSE, the DGSI and Tracfin are actively trying to prevent new foreign interferences.

France
DGSI looks to get ahead with predictive algorithms

After carrying out an end-of-year review of progress on its future big data analytics system OTDH, France's internal intelligence service, the DGSI, is looking to upgrade its technology capacity through the use of predictive analytics.

France
Tracfin's next director to start with a full plate of challenges

Because of its broad scope, the French financial intelligence service Tracfin, if used well, could become a handy intelligence warfare tool. But after Maryvonne Le Brignonen's controversial directorship the unit is facing numerous challenges, both internal and external.

France
Viginum and DGSI consider partnering with defence-backed startups to fight fake news

With four months to go before the French presidential elections, Sahar and Storyzy, two start-ups backed in their early days by the French armed forces ministry, are leading the field for contracts to equip the DGSI and Viginum - the second on the advice of the first - with cyber systems to fight fake news.

France
French Intelligence service dodges compensation claim from former Indian informer

In the absence of a clear, all-purpose legal framework, the intelligence services increasingly find themselves having to fight their former paid informers in court. An Indian informer of the French internal intelligence service has just had his claim thrown out by the French Council of State.

France
FTI's French investigations team falls apart

FTI Consulting is the latest in a string of big US and British firms to fail in the French marketplace. With the departure of its head of investigations, Stéphanie Lhomme, the Parisian consulting firm has been turned upside down.

Spotlight | France
Lagrange, French intelligence's covert technical forum

After a dozen years of existence, the informal Lagrange grouping of the DGSE and the technical directorates of France's other intelligence services seem to be more called on than ever.

France
Prison intelligence still seeks role within French intelligence community

France's prison intelligence service, the SNRP, the latest part of the French intelligence community to be restructured, still has shortcomings that leave it sidelined.

France
In Viginum's shadows, 'state start-up' Disinfo fights fake news for French foreign ministry

Hosted by the ministry's "digital ambassador", Disinfo, which develops open-source tools to monitor disinformation, was created in April 2019 by national security directorate SGDSN's inter-ministerial anti-fake news task force. As such, it represents the "soft power" component of the French government's efforts to counter disinformation.

France
France's SGDSN budget finances new anti-fake news technology for Viginum

France's new anti-fake news service Viginum has been allocated €4m to procure technology and hire 25 additional staff in signs which suggest the service is poised to work more closely with the French intelligence community.